GREER, S.C. —

A woman in Greer, South Carolina, missed the Powerball jackpot by a single number.

The woman bought three Powerball tickets at the P & P Food Mart on North Main Street in Greer when the jackpot reached a massive $850 million the night of Aug. 27. She gave two of them to friends, but kept the third.

Days later at a grocery store, she checked her ticket.

“I was told it was more than the $500 they could pay,” she said.

So, she took the ticket back to the store where she bought it and asked the clerk at the P & P Food Mart how much the ticket was worth. That’s when she found she won $200,000.

Her ticket with PowerPlay matched all but one of the Powerball numbers drawn.

“I don’t know that it has sunk in yet,” she told lottery officials.

As for her plans, she is saving the

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