The convenience store’s owner received $50,000 for selling the winning interstate lottery ticket. The state tax on the win was approximately $60 million.<\/p>\n
Only eight state lotteries currently offer online games. South Carolina isn’t one of them.<\/p>\n
The South Carolina Lottery currently offers instant games and terminal generated games, the latter’s portfolio consisting of Pick 3, Pick 4, Palmetto Cash 5, and Lucky for Life. The state also participates in the interstate games Powerball and Mega Millions.<\/p>\n
The state lottery often refers to the terminal generated games as “online games,” which has caused some confusion among Palmetto lottery players.<\/p>\n
\nThe term ‘online game’ has nothing to do with the internet,” the lottery website explains. “In fact, you are only allowed to buy lottery tickets from a licensed lottery retailer. The word ‘online’ is used because the terminals used to validate and dispense the tickets have an ‘always on’ data line that connects the retailer’s terminal to a centralized computer system.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The South Carolina Lottery App \u2013 available on Apple and Android devices \u2013 allows players to view winning numbers, and check tickets and second-chance promotions.<\/p>\n
Though there are no current plans to offer lottery games through the internet in South Carolina, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has slashed lottery sales at brick-and-mortar locations across the nation. State lotteries with online games are reporting an increase in sales during the health crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The South Carolina Lottery has extended its contract with Scientific Games by another six years, adding on to the 18-year partnership that was forged when the lottery debuted back in 2002. Scientific Games, a Las Vegas-based corporation that is a global leader in gaming and lottery operations, has designed and manufactured every instant lottery game […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":133612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33810,13699],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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