2Lady Jumbo Bucks ticket nets $100K after long triple-check

Columbia, SC — A Midlands man’s $3 lottery ticket sat hidden in a drawer for three days as he wrestled with disbelief — until a second opinion confirmed what he could hardly believe: he had just won $100,000.

The winner, who has not been identified, purchased the Lady Jumbo Bucks Crossword scratch-off at the Speedway gas station on North Lake Drive in Lexington. He said he initially couldn’t believe what he was seeing after revealing 11 words — the magic number for the game’s six-figure top prize.

To be sure, he put the ticket away and kept coming back to it. On the second day, he painstakingly wrote down each word he uncovered to count them again. Still unconvinced, he held off on claiming the prize.

By the third day, he sho

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