Lottery player scratches SC ticket — and it ‘keeps getting better and better’
A lottery player checked his ticket — and got a huge surprise.
“I was scratching it, and it keeps getting better and better,” the man told the South Carolina Education Lottery.
The lucky player scored a $100,000 prize, which was a “long time coming,” lottery officials wrote May 8 in a news release.
“I’ve been playing for 25 years and never really won much,” the winner said.
This time around, he tried his luck at the Power Trac store in Piedmont, a roughly 10-mile drive south from downtown Greenville. While there, he spent $3 on a ticket for the Lady Jumbo Bucks Crossword scratch-off game.
It turns out, the man’s crossword-themed ticket had 11 words on it. That means he beat 1-in-600,000 odds to score the game’s top prize.
“It was pretty fun,” said the winner, who wasn’t identified in the news release.
It’s not the first time a longtime lottery player has finally hit the jackpot. In Maryland, a woman hugged her dad when she won more more money than she ever had before, McClatchy News reported.
This story was originally published May 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM with the headline "Lottery player scratches SC ticket — and it ‘keeps getting better and better’."
