Lottery player was hoping for a ‘caffeine fix.’ His SC ticket ‘gave him quite a lift’
A South Carolina man stopped for an energy drink — and bought a lottery ticket that “gave him quite a lift,” officials said.
The man was getting a “caffeine fix” when a scratch-off ticket caught his eye, according to the South Carolina Education Lottery.
“Something told me to play that ticket,” said the man, who discovered the scratch-off was worth $300,000.
The lottery player followed his gut at the Cruizers store on U.S. Highway 76 in Marion, a roughly 45-mile drive northwest from Myrtle Beach. While there, he tried his luck on a $10 ticket for the Cash Payout scratch-off game, lottery officials wrote on their website and in a May 3 news release.
It turns out, the man beat 1-in-984,000 odds to win the game’s top prize. He plans to treat himself and other people after scoring the windfall, which totaled $208,500 after taxes, spokesperson Holli Armstrong told McClatchy News in an email.
“It’s a miracle,” said the lottery winner, who wasn’t identified in the news release.
It wasn’t the first time someone hit the jackpot after having a lucky feeling. Another South Carolina lottery player trusted her intuition and “ran out of the store” with a winning ticket, McClatchy News reported in April.
This story was originally published May 3, 2024 at 3:17 PM with the headline "Lottery player was hoping for a ‘caffeine fix.’ His SC ticket ‘gave him quite a lift’."
