Buying a losing lottery ticket proved lucky for a South Carolina man when it came up a winner in a “second chance promotion” by the SC Education Lottery.
The $10 ticket was in Magnificent Millions, a scratch-off game that offers losers a chance to win $1 million if they enter the numbers off their otherwise-useless ticket.
The drawing was held July 31, and the winner beat odds of about 1 in 5 million. (That’s because more than than 5 million entries were received, officials said.)…