COLUMBIA, SC (October 26, 2020) – The South Carolina Education Lottery is pleased to report its 201st winner of $1 million or more.
The Lottery celebrated its first millionaire 17 years ago when an $88 million jackpot-winning Powerball® ticket was sold in Fort Mill, and this month the 201st millionaire was made with the selling of a $2 million Mega Millions® ticket in Beaufort.
The milestone is not only a win for the millionaires, but for the lottery retailers that sold the winning tickets and the State of South Carolina.
In total, lottery millionaires in our state have won more than $2.6 billion in prize money. Lottery retailers earned more than $2.5 million in commissions when the tickets were claimed. And the state benefited from more than $182 million in taxes withheld from those winnings.
The majority of the millionaires, 78 of the 201, scratched their way to a $1 million prize. Seventy-three won playing Powerball®. Mega Millions®, Palmetto Cash 5, raffles and second-chance drawings combined to account for the rest. Eight of the winners won multi-million dollar jackpots.
Millionaires included, lottery players in South Carolina have won more than $13 billion in prizes since the games began in 2002.
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The Lottery celebrated its first millionaire 17 years ago when an $88 million jackpot-winning Powerball® ticket was sold in Fort Mill, and this month the 201st millionaire was made with the selling of a $2 million Mega Millions® ticket in Beaufort.
The milestone is not only a win for the millionaires, but for the lottery retailers that sold the winning tickets and the State of South Carolina.
In total, lottery millionaires in our state have won more than $2.6 billion in prize money. Lottery retailers earned more than $2.5 million in commissions when the tickets were claimed. And the state benefited from more than $182 million in taxes withheld from those winnings.
The majority of the millionaires, 78 of the 201, scratched their way to a $1 million prize. Seventy-three won playing Powerball®. Mega Millions®, Palmetto Cash 5, raffles and second-chance drawings combined to account for the rest. Eight of the winners won multi-million dollar jackpots.
Millionaires included, lottery players in South Carolina have won more than $13 billion in prizes since the games began in 2002.
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