COLUMBIA, SC (January 8, 2026) – It was the day after Christmas when a Lowcountry woman took a chance on a $5 lottery ticket and won $250,000.
She was filling up her car at the Quick Mart on N. Jefferies Blvd. in Walterboro when she says something told her to go back in the store to buy a ticket. She gasped when she scratched the Giant Jumbo Bucks card.
“When I saw $250 followed by a comma, my heart started pounding,” she said. “It was like Santa came after Christmas.”
And she is in no hurry to spend her prize.
“I’m just going to chill out for a while,” she said.
Three more top prizes of $250,000 remain in the Giant Jumbo Bucks game at odds of 1 in 960,000.
For selling the claimed ticket, Quick Mart in Walterboro received a commission of $2,500.
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