COLUMBIA, SC (March 26, 2026) – Friday the 13th was a Grand Strand woman’s lucky day.
She was grocery shopping with her husband at the Kroger on Hwy. 17 S. and bought a $5 lottery ticket. While her husband was loading the groceries, she sat in the car scratching the ticket.
“I think we won something big,” she screamed to him.
Her husband’s response, “What? Like $100?”
The wife’s ticket was worth $250,000.
“We couldn’t believe it,” the winner told South Carolina Education Lottery officials. “Friday the 13th might be unlucky, but not for me.”
The odds of winning $250,000 in the Giant Jumbo Bucks game are 1 in 960,000. Two more top prizes remain in the game.
For selling the claimed ticket, Kroger #025 in Garden City received a commission of $2,500.
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