COLUMBIA, SC (March 5, 2026) – When a convenience store didn’t have the lottery ticket a Midlands man wanted, he picked out another ticket that made him a millionaire.
“I couldn’t believe it,” he told South Carolina Education Lottery officials. “I wanted to cry, but I couldn’t.”
He purchased the winning Millionaire Bonus ticket at the Palm Pantry #10 on the Savannah Hwy. in North. He took the $10 ticket home and scratched it standing in his kitchen. The last row of numbers on the card revealed the “$1MIL” top prize.
“I am ecstatic,” he said after cashing in the big win. “Things that I have wanted to do and couldn’t afford to do, I can now.”
This is the Lottery’s first $1 million prize won in North, SC, in Orangeburg County.
Odds of winning $1 million in the Millionaire Bonus game are 1 in 1,500,000. Two more $1 million prizes remain in the game.
Palm Pantry #10 in North received a commission of $10,000 for selling the claimed ticket.
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