COLUMBIA, S.C. — A Rock Hill woman who won $15 playing the South Carolina Education Lottery used the winnings to buy another ticket that won her $250,000, lottery officials said Tuesday.
[Men try to cash lottery ticket with glued-on numbers]
“I started crying,” she told lottery officials.
She said she got off work and stopped at Gee Gees Food Store on Saluda Street in Rock Hill where she bought a $10 In the Green scratch-off ticket and won the top prize.
She said she slept soundly that night with the $250,000 winning ticket tucked underneath her mattress.
One top prize of $250,000 remains in the $10 In the Green game with odds of 1 in 780,000.
Gee Gees got a commission of $2,500.
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