“I called the [Michigan] Lottery and verified my prize, then it started to sink in that this was really happening,” the 53-year-old winner said
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- A Michigan man purchased a $20 Legendary Wild Time scratch-off ticket and won an eye-popping $2 million prize
- “I scratched the ticket right after I bought it and didn’t believe it was real,” the 53-year-old man told the Michigan Lottery
- The man decided to receive a lump sum payment of about $1.3 million rather than annuity payments for the full amount
Luck was on one Michigan man’s side when he selected which scratch-off lottery ticket game to play on a whim.
The 53-year-old Wayne County winner, who chose to remain anonymous, recently bought a $20 Legendary Wild Time instant game ticket at a gas station in Detroit and subsequently won an eye-popping $2 million prize.
“Every once in a while, I’ll buy a lottery ticket and the Legendary Wild Time game was just a random pick that day,” the man told the Michigan Lottery.
The winner continued, “I scratched the ticket right after I bought it and didn’t believe it was real when I saw I’d won $2 million!”…