A customer walked into a convenience store in Manning, South Carolina, USA looking for a lottery ticket and let the store clerk choose for them, UPI reports.

And that $10 Shimmering Riches scratch-off turned out to be a life-changing decision, winning the customer $500,000.

The anonymous winner recalled thinking, "Let it be the big one." Moments later, their wish came true.

"I fell to my knees," the winner said when claiming the next-to-last top prize in the game. "This has changed my life."

The odds of winning half-a-million dollars in the Shimmering Riches game is one in 1,128,000.

The Manning store earned a $5,000 commission for selling the winning ticket.