Woman almost lost Rs 1.6 crore after throwing lottery ticket into trash, thinking she would never win
Talk about being lucky, not once but twice! A woman from the US state of South Carolina became lucky twice, first by winning a $200,000 (Rs 1.27 crore) lottery and then by getting back the ticket she had discarded in the trash can.?The lottery win, which could have easily turned into a moment they regretted for the rest of their lives, was salvaged when the woman's husband spotted the discarded ticket in the trash.
How jackpot ended up in trash
It all began with the unnamed couple from Upstate South Carolina purchasing a South Carolina Education Lottery ticket for $5 (Rs 420). After scratching the ticket, the wife initially believed it was a non-winning one and discarded it.
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But as luck would have it, her husband saw the ticket in the trash can and believed it was a mistake. He realized that his wife had only partly scratched the lottery ticket.
Ticket wasn't fully scratched
The Double Sided Dollars Extra Play tickets have a lot of numbers: 15 on the front and five on the back. When she scratched the other side, the couple was in for the surprise of their lives.
¡°You have a 12 on it,¡± he told his wife and realized that they just won $200,000.
Buying dream home
According to the South Carolina Education Lottery, the odds of winning the jackpot ¡ª the top prize in the game ¡ª are 1 in 750,000. With their newfound fortune, the couple is now talking about buying a ¡°dream home.¡±
¡°The couple told lottery officials they are happy and thankful everything worked out,¡± an SCEL official told local media.
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In 2022, a similar incident happened in Virginia where a woman threw away her winning lottery ticket worth $110,000 (Rs 92 lakhs), before learning that it was the winning ticket. However, after realizing that she won the lottery, the woman searched through her trash and managed to find the ticket she had thrown away.
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