A Wayne County man's routine lottery ticket purchase led to a life-altering $4 million win with a scratch-off game. The anonymous 50-year-old winner bought his lucky ticket at Superior Market, situated on Plymouth Road in Ann Arbor, selecting it after noticing on MichiganLottery.com that the top prizes for the $4,000,000 Winner game were still up for grabs, as per WWJ Newsradio. "The store had three $4,000,000 Winner tickets left, so I bought all three, scratched the barcodes, and scanned the tickets," the man told ClickOnDetroit.
Despite the store's limited selection, one ticket directed him to file a claim, a sign of a significant win. However, the man was too apprehensive to uncover the prize immediately. "I was too nervous to scratch the ticket," he admitted in a statement summarized by MILotteryConnect. It wasn't until the next day, after his nerves had settled, that he used the Michigan Lottery app to reveal the $4 million prize, which prompted him to start screaming in disbelief.
Lottery Commissioner Suzanna Shkreli congratulated the winner, highlighting that checking the remaining prizes on the Michigan Lottery's website led to his new fortune. The prize was claimed at Lottery headquarters, where the winner elected to take a lump sum payment of approximately $2.7 million rather than opt for the annuity payments that would total the full amount. The man has voiced his plans to pay off his home, indulge in a trip, and save the remaining sum.
