COLUMBIA, SC (May 17, 2024) – Unsure how much he won, a North Augusta man got quite a shock when lottery staff showed him his Powerball® ticket was worth $1 MILLION.
“I was dumb struck,” he said.
The winner says he scanned the ticket where he bought it at the Quik Trip #1197 at 930 Edgefield Rd. in North Augusta. The message read to “See Lottery,” but it didn’t tell him his prize. At the Lottery’s Claims Center in Columbia, staff let him watch as his ticket was checked. At first, he thought he saw a $1,000 win, then it hit him there were six, not three, zeros.
“It’s enough for me to retire and be happy,” he said.
His ticket missed winning a $1 billion jackpot by just one number in the drawing on April 3 (11 - 38 - 41 - 62 - 65 and PB 15).
The odds of winning $1 million are 1
in 11,688,054.
For selling the claimed ticket, Quik Trip #1197 in North Augusta received a commission of $10,000.
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