COLUMBIA, SC (September 3, 2026) – An Upstate couple was on their way to lunch, when the wife asked to stop at the QT for a lottery ticket and won $500,000.
She ran in the QuikTrip on W. Wade Hampton Blvd. in Greer to get a Palmetto Cash 5 ticket but decided to buy a scratch-off too.
She got back in the car and scratched the ticket. “It’s probably going to be $1,000. No, we’ve got more zeros,” she told her husband.
He says she burst into tears when she saw the half-a-million-dollar prize was theirs.
With the surprise of the win now in the rear view mirror, the couple says life is more comfortable.
The odds of winning $500,000 in the Cash Money game are 1 in 1,560,000. Two more top prizes remain in the game.
QuikTrip #1113 in Greer received a commission of $5,000 for selling the claimed ticket.
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