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Lottery player checks Jurassic Park ticket — and discovers ‘T. rex sized prize'

Lottery player checks Jurassic Park ticket — and discovers ‘T. rex sized prize'

Miami Heralda day ago
A lottery player checked her Jurassic Park scratch-off ticket — and discovered a 'T. rex sized prize.'
'I was shaking,' the $200,000 prize winner told the South Carolina Education Lottery.
The lucky player said she 'had been hoping for a big win.' But she didn't expect her ticket to be worth six figures, lottery officials wrote July 30 in a news release.
The woman hit the jackpot after a stop at the Chris Corner store in Saint George, a roughly 55-mile drive northwest from the popular tourist destination of Charleston.
While there, she tried her luck on the Jurassic Park game. She said she was drawn to the lucky ticket because of the price, not the dinosaur-themed movie franchise.
'I had an extra $5,' the winner told lottery officials. 'So, I said 'Give me that ticket!''
It turns out, her ticket beat 1-in-540,000 odds to score a top prize in the game. The woman — who wasn't identified publicly — kept $139,000 after taxes, lottery spokesperson Holli Armstrong told McClatchy News via email.
It's not the first time an unexpected ticket has made someone richer. Two other South Carolina lottery players aren't Clemson fans, but they both won big in the school's game, McClatchy News previously reported.
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