COLUMBIA, SC (January 16, 2025) – A customer at a Manning convenience store won $500,000 on a lottery ticket they asked the clerk to pick out.
The clerk at the Carolina Pantry on the Sumter Hwy. choose a $10 Shimmering Riches scratch-off for the customer, who does not wish to be identified.
Before scratching the ticket, the player thought, “let it be the big one.” And it was, winning them the next to last top prize of half-a-million dollars in the game.
“I fell to my knees,” the winner told lottery officials. “This has changed my life.”
Odds of winning $500,000 in the Shimmering Riches game are 1 in 1,128,000.
The Carolina Pantry #8 in Manning received a commission of $5,000 for selling the claimed ticket.
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