College student plays SC lottery while waiting for food — and win leaves her shaking
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A college student tried her luck on a South Carolina lottery ticket — and the prize left her shaking.
The Clemson University senior said she was waiting for a food order when she spent $5 on a scratch-off ticket. She soon discovered the ticket was worth much more.
“I couldn’t believe it,” the $200,000 prize winner told the S.C. Education Lottery.
She was in so much shock that “her hands were still shaking when her takeout was ready,” lottery officials wrote in a May 4 news release.
The lucky moment came after the student stopped at Loco Mart in Clemson, a college town roughly 30 miles southwest of Greenville. While at the store, officials said she bought a ticket for the Break the Bank game.
It turns out, the scratch-off beat 1-in-720,000 odds to score the game’s biggest prize of $200,000. Now, the lucky student plans to put her winnings toward her books and tuition, officials said.
The winner, who wasn’t identified in a news release, kept $139,000 after taxes, lottery spokesperson Holli Armstrong told McClatchy News in an email.
It’s not the first time someone enrolled in college has hit the jackpot. Last year, a student on a spring break trip to South Carolina started screaming with her friends after her big win, McClatchy News reported.
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This story was originally published May 4, 2023 at 10:52 AM with the headline "College student plays SC lottery while waiting for food — and win leaves her shaking."
