
South Carolina man wins $200,000 lottery with numbers he saw on a TV show
CNN
Watching TV paid off big time for a South Carolina man who won a $200,000 top lottery prize from choosing numbers he saw on a show.
"I saw them on television," the winner, who remains anonymous but has been identified as a male, told South Carolina Education Lottery officials. Although he did not reveal the TV show, the winner noticed the numbers 1, 10, 16, 17 and 18 -- the winning combination -- on a program he was watching, according to a press release.
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