Lottery Winner Stopped in to Claim His $20 Prize, Then Splurged on 1 More Ticket and Hit the Jackpot

As the man began celebrating his luck, he says, it was “a good thing no one else was in the store, because they would have thought I was going insane”

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  • A 31-year-old turned a little bit of luck into a big win when he recently hit a lottery jackpot in Michigan
  • He bought his ticket at a gas station in Kent County using the money from a smaller lottery prize
  • “When I saw that I had won $1 million, I started screaming!” he told officials

A Michigan man’s luck didn’t just double, it multiplied — a lot — to $1 million when he went late one night to cash in a winning ticket and hit it big with another.

The man went to a gas station in Kent County and decided to buy an Electric 100s scratcher, according to a March 18 news release from the Michigan Lottery.

“I stopped at the Wesco station late one night to cash in a winning Lottery ticket,” said the 31-year-old player, who chose to remain anonymous…

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