South Carolina Lottery player wins two big Mega Millions prizes in two weeks

Comment #17

EZ Money — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 20:18:30 GMT

One of the most unlucky lottery winners of all time ...... after his $314million win.

Now there goes an oxymoronic phrase you just don't hear everyday, folks. bahaha

Comment #16

sully16 — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 10:20:16 GMT

Awesome, congrats to the lucky man.

Comment #15

EZ Money — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 17:13:43 GMT

you are right, Cotton. Nobody ever talks about or admits the whopping amount of losing money they played and lost just before finally winning. That is so true .... your real winning money is always your big win MINUS every bit of money you lost in the past on lottery play.

Comment #14

rcbbuckeye — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:11:25 GMT

Buying both winning tickets at the same store isn't so bizarre. I always buy my tickets at the same little c-store, and have for years. It's not I think the store is lucky, it's that I like and trust the owners.

Comment #13

jjtheprince14 — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 11:46:31 GMT

South Carolina is a free play state which means they have never sold a single losing ticket.

It makes sense to drop $10,000 in tickets knowing you'll win that money back in full at the very least.

Comment #12

PrisonerSix — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 02:07:48 GMT

I've heard of people winning twice.

One of the most unlucky lottery winners of all time, Jack Whittaker, actually won a $40,000 prize some time after his $314million win.

Comment #11

Mata Garbo — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 04:31:58 GMT

The fact that he purchased both winning tickets at the same store is next level bizarre. I would not be surprised if the store owner used the guy's 2 wins as a marketing gimmick to drive more business to his store. It could work for a few months until people came to their senses and realized that it's not the store that's lucky.....it was the guy that's lucky.

Comment #10

billybucks — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 03:52:00 GMT

I wouldn't think that to be necessarily true. Your run of the mill standard player might play 3-5 lines a drawing if they were happy with what the jackpot total is. I believe even the lowest jackpot which is what 20m, 40m, I forget is enough for anyone to win and survive with. Even that light play adds up though but players are way beyond being worried about admitting it. Your scratch card players are much, much worse and lose a lot more trying to buy the right ticket at the right store at the r... [ More ]

Comment #9

Stat$talker — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 02:40:41 GMT

People who play more win more.

Theoretically, that Statement is supposed to ring TRUE, but Statistically, the Data shows otherwise..in fact , just the opposite..

Which says that certain Communities are Redlined, Ticket terminals within those areas programmed to spit out worthless QPs..

Comment #8

sweetie7398 — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 01:07:23 GMT

Congratulations

Comment #7

cottoneyedjoe — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 23:45:56 GMT

He probably buys a lot more tickets than he's letting on. People who play more win more.

If you were interviewed for winning twice in quick sequence, would you admit to playing 50 lines a week, or would you act the innocent and say you just bought a single ticket both times. Nobody ever admits how much they really spend on these games.

Anyway, good for him and congrats and all that.

Comment #6

Bleudog101 — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:09:53 GMT

He must have a crystal ball to predict when the RNG was just right to buy those tickets.

Sort of like the five rights in patient care (right dose, right time, right patient...etc) only gets changed in Lotto land to right lottery, right store, right time.

He's smiling and Megaplier was his friend too.

Comment #5

noise-gate — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:42:19 GMT

* That's one lucky son of a gun

Comment #4

EZ Money — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:25:24 GMT

That's true, S5Thomps. As a player, that's the way you have to always keep thinking, hoping and wishing.

Comment #3

s5thomps — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:02:09 GMT

That's just the way it goes sometimes Papi! It's very unusual but not unheard of to hit the lottery twice. It has been done before. I'm just glad he chose to get the megaplier in both instances or it would have just been 10,000 and 1 million dollar hits instead of 40,000 and 3 million which is a huge difference. Congrats to the winner! As I always say in due time! If it happened to him it can definitely happen for anyone of us

Comment #2

EZ Money — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:54:19 GMT

Each time he only misses the jackpot by one ball out of 6. First he goes in the store and buys a quick pick and hits 4 white balls and the mega ball. BAM ! .... 40,000 thousand big ones because he mega plays the ticket with an extra dollar. He then waits three more weeks, goes back to the same store and buys another QP ticket, this time hitting all 5 white balls and only missing the mega ball. Another BAM ! , but this time for $ 3,000,000 million dollars because he also mega played the ticket. D... [ More ]

Comment #1

rcbbuckeye — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:45:27 GMT

According to SCEL website, both winning tickets were QP's.

What a lucky person

South Carolina Lottery player wins two big Mega Millions prizes in two weeks

Lottery Post — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:34:05 GMT

By Kate Northrop

A South Carolina Lottery player is seeing double after winning two big Mega Millions prizes from tickets bought at the same store in two weeks.

An anonymous winner had a good reason to celebrate after raking in a $40,000 Mega Millions prize, but not even two full weeks later, he had a much bigger reason another Mega Millions prize, this time worth $3 million.

The Grand Strand resident collected two significant prizes in the span of 11 days. He had bought his two winning... [ More ]