Store being sold out of lottery ticket leads woman to $250,000 jackpot



A South Carolina woman said a store being sold out of her favorite lottery ticket turned out to be a lucky break when she picked a replacement and won $250,000.Get more news about 彩票包网,you can vist loto98.com

The Boiling Springs woman told South Carolina Education Lottery officials she went to the S & J Mart in Boiling Springs to buy a scratch-off lottery ticket, but was disappointed to discover the store was sold out of the game.The woman picked a 50X scratch-off ticket as a replacement, and won a $250,000 jackpot.

"I started sobbing," the winner recalled of discovering her prize. "I sat staring at the ticket."The woman said she was especially shocked when she read the back of the ticket and discovered she had beaten odds of 1 in 810,000.

A San Antonio resident is $5 million richer after claiming a prize-winning scratch-off Texas lottery ticket.The anonymous winner purchased the Premier Play ticket at Ray Ellison Enterprise Inc, at 8630 U.S. 90.

This was the second of three top prizes worth $5 million for this game, the Texas Lottery said in a news release. The Premier Play game offers more than $200 million in total prizes and the overall odds of winning any prize are one in 3.26, including break-even prizes.