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Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Wife hits $500,000 lottery jackpot after husband forgot to buy tickets
After her husband forgot to buy their lottery tickets, a woman took matters into her own hands — and hit the jackpot. The unidentified woman recently stopped at a Redi Mart gas station in Lyman, South Carolina, and bought herself three Money Madness Extra Play scratch-off game lottery tickets. She told the South Carolina Education Lottery that the 'bright, shiny, and glittery tickets caught my eye.' She didn't win anything from the first two tickets after scratching off the hidden numbers. However, she said her third ticket was 'magical,' since it won her the top prize of $500,000. 'I felt like Jed Clampett when he discovered his bubblin' crude,' she said, referring to the character on The Beverly Hillbillies discovering oil on his land. This resulted in Jed's family's new wealth and their move to California. The woman also shared her plans for her earnings, adding: 'I'll have a little fun, take some trips, and retirement will come sooner rather than later.' As a result of her win, the gas station where she got the lottery ticket received a commission of $5,000. According to the South Carolina Education Lottery, the odds of winning $500,000 in the Money Madness Extra Play game are one in 1.152 million. This isn't the first lottery player in the U.S. who ended up winning big. Earlier this month, school bus driver Russell Ruff, who's based in Connecticut, discovered that his lost lottery ticket was worth $150,000. He lost the ticket shortly after purchasing it on Friday, June 13, at a gas station. So, it was 'miraculous' that his 16-year-old cat was the one who later discovered the Powerball ticket. 'We lost the ticket at home. It went behind a headboard, and we didn't think too much of it,' he said in the release shared by the Connecticut Lottery. 'We didn't really check the numbers.' Ruff said he had to move his bed when he realized the cat was stuck behind it. With the ticket back in his possession, he realized he had four of the five winning numbers, plus the Powerball number. He also had Power Play added to his ticket, which allows you to multiply your non-jackpot winnings by a specific amount. As a result, Ruff's prize increased from $50,000 to $150,000. In June, a Kentucky woman, Pamela Howard-Thornton, also won the state lottery after nearly losing the winning ticket by throwing it in the trash. Howard-Thornton bought four tickets for the Flamingo Bingo scratch-off game at a rest stop store in nearby Lebanon Junction after having a dream about winning a large jackpot. 'The first three were not winners, so I put them in the trash,' she added. 'Then I was like 'Where's my fourth ticket?' I looked in the trash and I was like, 'Oh, my gosh, I threw it away.'' Luckily, Howard-Thornton was able to recover the ticket and won the game's top prize of $80,000, or $57,600 after taxes.
UPI
4 days ago
- Business
- UPI
Forgetful husband leads S.C. woman to $500,000 lottery prize
A South Carolina woman whose husband forgot to buy lottery tickets made her own trip to the store and won $500,000. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo July 25 (UPI) -- A South Carolina woman whose husband forgot to buy her lottery tickets made her own trip to the store and ended up winning $500,000. The Upstate woman told South Carolina Education Lottery officials she made a trip to the 357 Redi Mart in Lyman because her husband had forgotten to buy the lottery tickets she requested. "I was standing in line and these bright, shiny and glittery tickets caught my eye," she said. "I bought three of them." The first two Money Madness Extra Play tickets weren't winners, but the third earned her a $500,000 prize. "I felt like Jed Clampett when he discovered his bubblin' crude," she said. The winner said she is making plans for her newfound wealth. "I'll have a little fun, take some trips and retirement will come sooner rather than later," she said.
Miami Herald
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Husband forgot to get lottery tickets. So wife bought her own — and won big
A woman's husband forgot to get lottery tickets. So, the wife bought her own — and won big. 'I'll have a little fun, take some trips and retirement will come sooner rather than later,' the wife told the South Carolina Education Lottery in a July 25 news release. The lucky winner scored $500,000 after she stopped at a gas station in Lyman, a roughly 25-mile drive northeast from downtown Greenville. While at the 357 Redi Mart, she tried her luck on the Money Madness Extra Play scratch-off game. 'I was standing in line and these bright, shiny and glittery tickets caught my eye,' the woman told lottery officials. 'I bought three of them.' She checked two of the $10 tickets, but they weren't winners. Then she scratched off the last one, revealing a 'magical' win. It turns out, the woman beat more than 1-in-a million odds to score one of the top prizes in the game. She kept $347,500 after taxes and compared the win to a character's fortune on the TV show 'The Beverly Hillbillies,' lottery officials wrote in their release and in an email to McClatchy News. 'I felt like Jed Clampett when he discovered his bubblin' crude,' said the lucky winner, who wasn't identified publicly. It's not the first time an eye-catching lottery ticket has led someone to hit the jackpot. In North Carolina, a man was drawn to a ticket that made him much richer, McClatchy News reported in February.
