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Unlike horseshoes and hand grenades, coming close paid off for two customers who bought Mega Millions lottery tickets in South Carolina.
Two tickets in the Aug. 27 drawing sold through Palmetto State retailers matched all five white balls (16, 18, 21, 54 and 65), falling just short of matching the Mega Ball (5) and winning the $582 million jackpot. Or at least splitting it.
Instead, each player will collect a second prize of $1 million— with one of those players winning $2 million for purchasing the optional Megaplier, which was 2 in this drawing.
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According to theS.C. Education Lottery, the $2 million winning ticket was bought at a Quik Trip convenience store on Gold Hill Road in Fort Mill, located in northern York County near the border with Charlotte. The other winner was bought at the Food Lion grocery store in Longs, located inland of North Myrtle Beach in Horry County and also near the North Carolina border.
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Winning $1 million lottery ticket bought in North Augusta
- By Bianca Moormanbmoorman@aikenstandard.com
No ticket sold for Tuesday's drawing matched all six numbers. The tickets sold in South Carolina were the only two winners of second-tier prizes.
The estimated jackpot for the Aug. 30 drawing is $627 million ($309 million cash value). This is the ninth time a Mega Millions jackpot has eclipsed $600 million since the multistate lottery game started in 2002.
The jackpot has reached $1 billion or more six times. The first was in 2018, when a winning ticket worth $1.537 billion was sold in the Greenville suburb of Simpsonville.
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Billon dollar lottery jackpots are on the rise; record 3rd mega prize in 2023
- By David Ferraradferrara@postandcourier.com
A record $1.6 billion Mega Millions ticket was sold last year in Florida.
A winning Mega Millions ticket was sold in New Jersey for a jackpot of $1.13 billion in June. That prize remains uncollected.
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This Is What Actually Happens When You Win the Lottery
- Veronika Bondarenko
The odds of winning a Mega Millions jackpot is 1 in 302.5 million. The odds of winning any prize in the lottery game is 1 in 24. Mega Millions tickets cost $2.
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