COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– A customer at a Manning convenience store won $500,000 after they asked the clerk to pick out a lottery ticket, said officials. SC Lottery officials said a clerk at the Carolina Pantry on the Sumter Hwy, chose a $10 Shimmering Riches scratch-off for the customer. Before scratching the ticket, the player thought, “let it be the big one”, according to a press release. And a big one it was because the ticket won them the next to last top prize of half-a-million dollars in the game. “I fell to my knees. This has changed my life,” the winner told lottery officials. The odds of winning $500,000 in the Shimmering Riches game are 1 in 1,128,000. The Carolina Pantry #8 in Manning received a commission of $5,000 for selling the claimed ticket. Categories: Clarendon, Local News Tags: SC Lottery