Detroit Resident Strikes Fortune with $2 Million Scratch-Off Lottery Win

A 53-year-old man from Wayne County, Detroit, won $2 million from the Michigan Lottery’s Legendary Wild Time scratch-off game after buying a ticket at Jefferson Fuels Inc. on East Jefferson Avenue. The game has paid out over $34 million in winnings since August 2025. The winner said, “Every once in a while, I’ll buy a lottery ticket and the Legendary Wild Time game was just a random pick that day,” and “I scratched the ticket right after I bought it and didn’t believe it was real when I saw I’d won $2 million! It wasn’t until I called the lottery and verified my prize that it started to sink in that this was really happening,” according to CBS News Detroit.

WZZM 13 reports that the winner chose a one-time lump sum of about $1.3 million instead of annuity payments. The prize was officially claimed at Lottery headquarters with all paperwork completed…

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