Lottery player’s stop for gas leads to life-changing win in SC. Now she’s a homeowner
A lucky lottery player turned $10 into a $1 million prize after filling up at an Upstate gas station, according to the South Carolina Education Lottery.
The woman netted the windfall on a Royal Millions scratcher game and used her winnings to buy a home, officials said in a Jan. 31 news release.
“It’s amazing,” she told lottery officials. “This has change [sic] my life and made it better.”
She bought the lucky ticket at a Spinx gas station in Inman, beating odds of 1 in 1,560,000 to win the $1 million grand prize, the lottery said.
After filling up, the woman said she drove home and scratched the ticket in her driveway. That’s when she laid eyes on the life-changing prize.
“When you see ‘$1 MIL,’ printed on your ticket it stops you,” she told lottery officials.
The Spinx gas station received a $10,000 commission for selling the winning ticket.
Inman is about a 70-mile drive west from Rock Hill.
This story was originally published January 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM with the headline "Lottery player’s stop for gas leads to life-changing win in SC. Now she’s a homeowner."