Man Wins $4M Lottery With Ticket He Didn’t Want to Buy

A Michigan resident unexpectedly secured a $4 million lottery windfall — after shopping for a ticket for a sport he did not initially need to play.

The person, who has chosen to stay nameless (Michigan is one in all eight states that enable winners to be nameless in the event that they win a specific amount), informed Lottery Post, a web site with lottery information, that he went to a gasoline station final month intending to make use of $50 in winnings from a distinct sport to his most well-liked sport of alternative. However when it wasn’t obtainable, he chosen a $30 ticket from the “Millionaire’s Membership” scratch-off sequence. The preliminary letdown was short-lived after the 54-year-old scratched the chosen ticket and found the coveted “$4MIL” notation beneath a profitable image.

The “Millionaire’s Membership,” launched in February, has yielded over $61 million in prizes for winners, in response to the Michigan Lottery, with $96 million in complete prizes nonetheless up for grabs.

In different lottery information, nobody received the Powerball jackpot on Monday, so the prize now stands at $1.2 billion for Wednesday evening’s drawing, making it the seventh highest jackpot within the sport’s historical past.

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