Lottery player buys last ticket on roll — and wins big in Michigan. ‘Doesn’t feel real’
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A 46-year-old man said he bought two $30 lottery tickets while at a store in Michigan and won $100. But he wasn’t done winning yet.
“I used some of my winnings to purchase more tickets,” the man told officials with the Michigan Lottery. “I hardly ever play the Bingo games, but there was one left on the roll, so I decided to purchase it.”
That $5 Bingo Blockbuster scratch ticket was worth more than he could believe, according to a March 15 news release from the Michigan Lottery.
“I scratched the barcode and scanned it right away and got a message to file a claim,” the lottery player recalled. “I scanned it a few more times and kept getting the same message, so I drove straight to the Lottery office in Saginaw to find out what I’d won.”
He had won one of the game’s top $300,000 prizes, officials said.
“When the Lottery employee told me the ticket was a $300,000 winning ticket, I thought I had heard her wrong at first,” he said in the release. “It still doesn’t feel real as I’m sitting here claiming the prize!”
The man, who chose to remain anonymous, plans to use the newfound cash to renovate his home and invest.
“Winning $300,000 is humbling and came at the perfect time,” he said.
The winning ticket was sold at South Side Market in Bay City, about 15 miles northeast of Saginaw in central Michigan.
This story was originally published March 15, 2023 at 1:14 PM with the headline "Lottery player buys last ticket on roll — and wins big in Michigan. ‘Doesn’t feel real’."