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First $10 Instant Ticket Purchase Wins a Hopkins Resident $250,000

6/27/2019 9:37:44 AM

Kangaroo Express #822 located on 3416 Leesburg Rd. in Columbia sold the $250,000 winning ticket.


COLUMBIA, SC (June 27, 2019) – It was the first $10 instant ticket ever purchased as well as the last ticket in the ticket dispenser that won a Hopkins resident $250,000.

“I usually purchase a $1 scratcher every now and again on the weekend,” said the winner. The prize was won after scratching the $10 instant ticket Win Big.

“I scratched the ticket while watching TV,” the winner explained. “It was dark, and I thought I wasn’t seeing the correctly. I asked the person I was with for a second glance at the ticket and realized I’d won big!”

The winner plans to put the prize money in the bank and take a while to think about what to do with it.

Five top prizes of $250,000 remain in the Win Big instant ticket, at odds of 1 in 660,000.

For selling the claimed ticket, Kangaroo Express #822 located in Columbia received a commission of $2,500.

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