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“I was screaming,” says Upstate $200,000 Powerball® Winner

2/10/2023 8:57:50 AM

COLUMBIA, SC (February 10, 2023) An Upstate woman had just gotten off work when her daughter called to tell her to check her Powerball® tickets. Someone at the V Go Mart on E. River St. in Anderson where she buys tickets won $200,000.

Mom joked, “Yeah, me.”

She wasn’t laughing when she called her daughter back to say, “It is me.”

“I was screaming,” the mom said.

Her Powerball® with PowerPlay® ticket won big in the drawing on Saturday, January 21(5 - 14 - 19 - 46 - 64 PB: 22). 

“I almost didn’t go to the store that day,” the winner told South Carolina Education Lottery officials. She changed her mind and stopped in for a soda. She says something told her to get a Powerball® ticket too.

Today the winner is looking forward to buying a house.

The odds of matching four white ball numbers and the red Powerball® number to win $50,000 playing Powerball® are 1 in 913,129. The odds of a 4X multiplier being selected are 1 in 14 when the jackpot is more than $150 million.

For selling the claimed ticket, V Go Mart in Anderson received a commission of $2,000.

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