Midlands woman turns $100 lottery win into $300,000

Source: SC Education Lottery

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– A Midlands woman won $100 on a scratch-off ticket and turned it into $300,000, say SC Lottery officials.

Lottery officials say she did it by spending $20 of her $100 winnings on two lottery tickets, won her money back and then bought two more tickets that caught her eye.

“I went out to my car to scratch them and I was surprised,” she said.

A few minutes later she ran back inside the store on E. Columbia Ave. in Batesburg to check a Max Money scratch-off with the store’s ticket checker.

The winner told officials she is saving most of the money for her retirement.

She claimed the last top prize of $300,000 in Max Money game at odds of 1 in 936,000 and the game is no longer available, say officials.