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Man finds $500 lottery ticket and returns it to owner. Then he hits the jackpot.

Nbcwashington · · 244 words · By Danielle Abreu
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5 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“A South Carolina man won more than half a million dollars in a state lottery game”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm a South Carolina man won a jackpot of $586,000, which is more than half a million dollars.
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web search NEUTRAL — A South Carolina man returned a lost winning lottery ticket to its rightful owner -- two months later, he hit the jackpot himself.He’s not the only person to strike luck in a gas station. A Michigan m…
https://nypost.com/2026/05/16/us-news/man-wins-over-500k-lot…
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web search NEUTRAL — A woman from South Carolina, USA, won half a million dollars thanks to what seemed like a casual slip-up by her husband.That third ticket won her $500,000 (about 6.5 billion soms). The woman intends t…
https://zamin.uz/newsite/en/dunyo/155852-eri-unutdi-aeli-500…
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web search NEUTRAL — A South Carolina man's unique lottery strategy recently paid off big time, landing him the $300,000 top prize from a scratch-off ticket.A quarter of the South Carolina Education Lottery's proceeds go …
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/gut-feeling-leads-3000…
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“The man from Grand Strand told the South Carolina Education Lottery he found a $500 winning lottery ticket two months ago and returned it to its rightful owner”
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Three separate web search results confirm that a man from the Grand Strand area returned a $500 winning ticket he found to its rightful owner.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Grand Strand-area winner told the South Carolina Education Lottery that he found a $500 winning Pick 3 ticket on the floor of a Murphy gas station in front of a Walmart on Dorsett Drive in Myrtle …
https://local12.com/news/nation-world/palmetto-cash-5-man-tu…
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web search NEUTRAL — The player told the South Carolina Education Lottery he found a $500 winning Pick 3 ticket on the floor at the Murphy gas station in front of the Walmart on Dorsett Drive in Myrtle Beach and left his …
https://www.wmbfnews.com/2026/05/13/grand-strand-man-returns…
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web search NEUTRAL — A South Carolina man won a $586,000 lottery jackpot two months after returning a stranger’s lost $500 winning ticket. The anonymous winner said he felt good things were coming after reuniting the tick…
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/man-did-thing-returned-strangers-1…
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“The ticket was a Pick 3 game that the man... said he found on the floor of a gas station store in Myrtle Beach.”
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Multiple sources specify that the returned ticket was a 'Pick 3' game found on the floor of a Murphy gas station in Myrtle Beach.
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web search NEUTRAL — RETURNED definition: 1. having come back from somewhere, or having been sent back: 2. having come back from somewhere…. Learn more.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/returned
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web search NEUTRAL — I returned to my hotel. Mr Platt returned from Canada in 1995. Be Careful! Don't say that someone ' returns back ' to a place. Return is a fairly formal word. In conversation and in less formal writin…
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/returned
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web search NEUTRAL — RETURNED definition: to come back to a former place or state | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples in American English
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/retu…
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“On April 25, he bought a Palmetto Cash 5 ticket at the same gas station store and matched all five numbers drawn to win that night’s $586,000 jackpot.”
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Multiple sources confirm that on April 25, the man won a $586,000 Palmetto Cash 5 jackpot from a ticket purchased at the same gas station.
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web search NEUTRAL — Weeks later, the man bought a Palmetto Cash 5 ticket at the same store that ended up matching all five numbers drawn in the April 25 drawing to win the $586,000 jackpot.
https://www.ktiv.com/2026/05/14/do-right-thing-man-turns-los…
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web search NEUTRAL — A South Carolina man won a $586,000 lottery jackpot two months after returning a stranger’s lost $500 winning ticket. The anonymous winner said he felt good things were coming after reuniting the tick…
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/man-did-thing-returned-strangers-1…
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web search NEUTRAL — On April 25, the man purchased a Palmetto Cash 5 ticket with all five of the winning numbers, securing him the whopping $586,000 jackpot. The man only had a 1 in 850,668 of buying a ticket with all fi…
https://nypost.com/2026/05/16/us-news/man-wins-over-500k-lot…
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“South Carolina is one of few states that allows lottery winners to remain anonymous, no matter matter their earnings.”
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Web search results explicitly state that a winner in South Carolina can remain anonymous, and it is listed alongside other states with similar anonymity laws.
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web search NEUTRAL — Delaware: Winners are allowed to remain anonymous, regardless of prize size. Kansas: Winners in Kansas can request to remain anonymous.
https://thehill.com/business/5488429-powerball-anonymity-dif…
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web search NEUTRAL — Here’s where you can remain anonymous: Delaware: Winners are allowed to remain anonymous, regardless of prize size.South Carolina: A winner in South Carolina can remain anonymous, despite recent effor…
https://ktla.com/news/can-a-mega-millions-jackpot-winner-rem…
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web search NEUTRAL — The winner, who has elected to remain anonymous, chose the one-time payment cash option, making their prize worth nearly $878,000,000. It is the largest jackpot payout to a single winner in U. S. hist…
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/04/700205319/anonymous-mega-mill…
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