Another big $1 million winning lottery ticket is sold out in Columbia

A Midlands man found a winning $1 million prize in a stack of old lottery tickets, the South Carolina Education Lottery announced Friday.

When he realized, he told lottery officials he “didn’t believe it.” The Mega Millions ticket had been lying on his living room table for more than a month, along with some other tickets he had been meaning to check.

He bought it while grocery shopping at a Food Lion in Columbia, for the drawing on Jan. 16. The numbers drawn were 2, 10, 42, 49, 54 and Megaball 13.

The ticket matched the first five drawn, but missed the Megaball. The odds of winning $1 million playing Mega Millions are 1 in 12,607,306.

The winner has to reach the nearest lottery headquarters for further documentation formalities and for claiming their winning prize money, lottery officials said.