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Upstate Wife Gifts Husband a $125,000 Winning Lottery Ticket

1/12/2021 11:38:22 AM

COLUMBIA, SC (January 12, 2021) – An Easley couple’s tradition of giving each other lottery tickets as gifts paid off with a $125,000 win.

Sitting on the sofa on Christmas Eve the husband scratched a $5 Extra Play ticket his wife purchased for him at the Hot Spot #4002 on the J C Calhoun Memorial Hwy. in Easley. He told lottery officials he couldn’t believe what he was seeing when he saw a $125,000 prize. When his wife saw the ticket, she said “Oh, my gosh.”

“It was a very nice Christmas present,” the husband admitted.

The couple says winning the lottery seemed surreal until they were handed a check for their prize money to start 2021.

“It was pretty cool,” said the husband. “We had fun.”

The Easley couple overcame odds of 1 in 750,000 to win $125,000 in the ($5) Extra Play game. One top prize remains in the game.

Hot Spot #4002 in Easley received a commission of $1,250 for selling the claimed ticket.

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