Unlike horseshoes and hand grenades, for two customers who bought Mega Millions tickets in South Carolina, coming close to winning actually paid off.

Two tickets in the Aug. 27 drawing, sold through Palmetto State retailers, matched all five white balls (16, 18, 21, 54 and 65), just short of matching the Mega Ball (5) and winning the $582 million jackpot. Or at least splitting it.

Instead, each player will receive a second prize of $1 million, with one of those players winning $2 million for purchasing the optional Megaplier, which was number 2 in this drawing.

No ticket sold for Tuesday’s drawing had all six numbers. The tickets sold in South Carolina were the only two winners of second-tier prizes.

The SC Education Lottery has yet to announce which vendors sold the winning tickets.

The estimated jackpot for the Aug. 30 drawing is $627 million ($309 million cash value). This is the ninth time the Mega Millions jackpot has topped $600 million since the lottery began in 2002.

The jackpot has reached $1 billion or more six times, the first time being in 2018, when a winning ticket worth $1.537 billion was sold in the Greenville suburb of Simpsonville.

Last year, a record $1.6 billion worth of Mega Millions tickets were sold in Florida.

A winning Mega Millions ticket was sold in New Jersey in June for a jackpot of $1.13 billion. That prize has still not been claimed.

The odds of winning a Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million. The odds of winning a prize in the lottery are 1 in 24. Mega Millions tickets cost $2.