South Carolina man wins $100K lottery with strategy he saw on TV
The man told the South Carolina Education Lottery he was inspired by an episode of the TLC series, 'Lottery Changed My Life'
A man in South Carolina recently won the lottery using a strategy he said he saw on TV.
The man – who has not been identified – was apparently inspired by an episode of "Lottery Changed My Life," a series which airs on TLC.
His strategy was to spend $25 a week playing the lottery for three months, according to a June 21 press release from the South Carolina Education Lottery.
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He told the organization that on his first week, he won $500. In his seventh week, he won big: $100,000 on a Powerball ticket.
A man in South Carolina won big when he used a strategy from the TLC series "Lottery Changed My Life." The unidentified man won $100,000 on a Powerball ticket. (iStock / iStock)
"I didn’t even know how to play Powerball," the man said in the press release.
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He bought the Powerball ticket at a Kwik Fill gas station in Hanahan, South Carolina, the press release said.
After he bought the ticket, he at first thought he matched just two numbers. Then his wife took a look and noticed there were more matching numbers – just one short of the jackpot drawing, according to the press release.
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However, his ticket was enough to win him a total of $100,000, which was double the amount from the initial $50,000 prize, since he spent an extra $1 on his ticket, the press release said.
A man in South Carolina bought a winning Powerball ticket at a Kwik Fill gas station in the city of Hanahan. "The odds of matching four white ball numbers and the red Powerball number are 1 in 913,129," the South Carolina Education Lottery wrote on i (iStock / iStock)
The man used his winnings to buy a car. And he’s still going on his $25-a-week strategy.
"I’m going to finish out the three months," he said.