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Upstate Lottery Winner Says the Ocean is Calling

8/14/2019 5:03:03 PM

COLUMBIA, SC (August 15, 2019) – The ocean is calling an Upstate lottery winner.

He’s headed to the beach after cashing in a $400,000 Palmetto Cash 5 ticket.

“I want to see the warm, blue water,” he told lottery officials when he cashed in his ticket matching all five numbers drawn on Tuesday, August 6 (14, 15, 18, 19, and 28).

The winning ticket was a quick pick he bought on a grocery shopping trip to the Publix Super Markets #1012 on W. Butler Rd. in Mauldin.

The odds of winning $400,000 playing Palmetto Cash 5 are 1 in 4,015,536.

For selling the claimed ticket, Publix Super Markets #1012 in Mauldin received a commission of $4,000.

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