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S.C. woman wins $250,000 on wrong lottery ticket — and is giving it awayNews Story
A South Carolina woman showed some kindness when a convenience store clerk sold her a lottery ticket that was different than the one she asked for, but bought the ticket anyway. She was rewarded. The wrong ticket turned out to be the right one, and the Greenville woman won $250,000, according to the South Carolina Education Lottery. The unnamed woman purchased the winning ticket at the Red Robin Foods on Woodruff Rd. in Greenville County. It was a long-shot jackpot, as the unidentified
Jul 17, 2018, 8:36 am - Lottery News

SC lottery error prompts class-action lawsuitNews Story
It was Christmas Day in South Carolina and plenty of people were feeling lucky. For just $1, they could buy a ticket for Holiday Cash Add-A-Play at their local convenience store. The ticket looked a bit like a tic-tac-toe game: get three Christmas trees in a row on a nine-space grid and you won, maybe 2 or 20 bucks. Get all nine Christmas trees to fill the grid entirely and you won the $500 jackpot. The odds of that happening were 1 in 4,800. But something amazing started happening at exactly
Jun 2, 2018, 9:10 am - Lottery News

South Carolina Lottery says no prize for 71,000 'winning' ticketsNews Story
The South Carolina Education Lottery says players who thought they won $500 from a December 2017 game, will not receive their winnings. Lottery officials announced in a press release Wednesday that anyone who purchased a Holiday Cash Add A Play ticket on December 25, 2017 between 5:51 p.m. until the close of the game at 7:53 p.m. that depicted nine tree symbols will receive a refund for the ticket. Those ticket holders will not receive the winnings because officials say the tickets were erron
May 30, 2018, 6:24 pm - Lottery News

Lottery tickets will not be sold in South Carolina for more than 12 hours this weekendNews Story
You're out of luck if you planned on buying Powerball or Pick 3 tickets in South Carolina on Mother's Day morning. Stores will stop selling tickets for computerized lottery games including Mega Millions and Palmetto Cash 5 at 11:45 p.m. Saturday as the state switches to a new contractor's computer system. Exactly when stores will start selling again is unclear, but it will be sometime Sunday afternoon, more than 12 hours after going dark, state lottery Director Hogan Brown said. The lotte
May 10, 2018, 11:02 am - Lottery News

S.C. lottery glitch could result in $35 million in prize payouts; NJ firm will investigateNews Story
South Carolina lottery officials say a computer glitch that made winners out of everyone who played a holiday game for two hours on Christmas Day could result in a more than $35 million prize payout nearly double the initial estimate. The S.C. Education Lottery Commission announced the new figure Tuesday at a special meeting called to discuss the ongoing fallout from a programming error. The mistake had players of the Holiday Cash Add-A-Play game seeing three matching Christmas trees print
Jan 23, 2018, 6:00 pm - Lottery News

SC Lottery will set aside $19.6 million for potential payouts to cover glitchNews Story
The South Carolina lottery will set aside $19.6 million to cover potential claims while it continues to investigate a Christmas Day glitch that affected Holiday Cash Add-A-Play tickets. The S.C. Education Lottery Commission met behind closed doors Friday and decided to set aside the money for potential payouts while continuing to investigate a programming glitch that produced erroneous tickets on Christmas Day. The S.C. Education Lottery's computer system vendor, Intralot, experienced a pr
Dec 30, 2017, 8:47 am - Lottery News

SC Lottery not paying winnings on game because of 'programming error'News Story
People who believed they were big winners in a simple South Carolina Education Lottery game over the Christmas holiday were angry to discover that they won't actually win anything. That's because a computer glitch awarded many would-be lucky lottery winners thousands of dollars through the Holiday Cash game. From 5:51 to 7:53 p.m. on Christmas Day, the same play symbol was repeated in all nine available play areas on tickets which would result in a top prize of $500, according to the South
Dec 27, 2017, 12:18 pm - Lottery News

South Carolina man wins two $100,000 Powerball lottery prizesNews Story
Within a 48-hour time span a Little River, South Carolina, man realized he had won the lottery, twice. South Carolina Lottery officials say the man realized he had a winning ticket Monday night when he checked his numbers. That ticket was worth $100,000. The next morning, he checked a separate Powerball ticket and discovered it too was worth $100,000. The Little River resident, who was not identified by the South Carolina Lottery, purchased both tickets at the Food Lion on Highway 9 in Lon
Jun 14, 2017, 2:38 pm - Lottery News

Triple 7s result in $2.2 million lottery payoutNews Story
On Monday, lottery officials announced that 8,955 Pick 3 players in South Carolina celebrated triple lucky 7's this weekend. Depending on the price paid for the ticket, the winners took home either $250 or $500 per play. The total payout eclipsed $2.2 million for Saturday's draw. According to a press release. the combination is the lottery's most played sequence, with this drawing producing 10 times the number of winners compared to the previous day's draw. This marks the ninth time 7-7-7
Mar 13, 2017, 4:09 pm - Lottery News

S.C. man wins lottery jackpot twiceNews Story
By Todd Northrop A South Carolina man became a two-time lottery winner in a single day when he cashed in a pair of tickets worth $100,000 and $200,000. The lucky Darlington resident has been playing the Palmetto Cash 5 daily drawing game for more than a decade, trying out different strategies to win, and yesterday he cashed in two winning tickets worth $100,000 and $200,000. This is life changing, he said. His idea to quick pick five numbers at the Situ LLC on South Main St. and the
Feb 9, 2017, 2:21 pm - Lottery News