Enjoying a breakfast stop unexpectedly turns jackpot with a $310K lottery victory in Michigan.
A 54-year-old woman from Washtenaw County, Michigan, has become the latest winner of the Fantasy 5 game, taking home a prize of $309,989. The lucky woman, who chose to remain anonymous, purchased her winning ticket at the Belleville Amoco, located at 10950 Belleville Road in Belleville, Michigan.
The woman usually buys her lottery tickets online but decided to venture out and buy a ticket in-store on the day of the drawing. She didn't check her ticket right after the drawing but scanned it with the Michigan Lottery app later that night. To her surprise, the app showed a win of $309,989, significantly more than the $10 she initially expected to win.
The Fantasy 5 game offers a range of prizes for players, with a jackpot that can vary depending on the number of winners. The jackpot amount was an estimated $128,000 at the time of the drawing on July 12. The winning numbers for that drawing were 13-18-23-28-33.
The woman plans to use a portion of her winnings to help her daughter with student loans and pay bills. The rest of the winnings will be saved for future use. Fantasy 5 is one of the woman's favourite lottery games, and she is thrilled to have won the jackpot.
Players need to purchase their tickets by 7:08 PM on the same day for the same-day drawing. The game's drawings take place every day at 7:29 PM. An extra $1 for the EZmatch feature offers a chance to win instantly a prize of up to $500. The cost per Fantasy 5 play is $1, and players have a chance to win a prize between $1 and the growing jackpot.
At the time of writing, the Fantasy 5 jackpot is an estimated $128,000. Players can also purchase add-ons like Double Play for an additional $1 per play, which offers a secondary chance with the same odds of 1 in 575,757 but a different prize structure. The odds of winning the Fantasy 5 jackpot in Michigan are 1 in 575,757 for matching all 5 numbers on a $1 ticket.
The woman visited the Michigan Lottery headquarters to claim her winnings, adding another success story to the long list of lottery winners in the state. Despite the odds, it just goes to show that anyone could be the next lucky winner.
The unidentified lucky woman from Belleville, Michigan, decided to buy a physical ticket from the Belleville Amoco for the Fantasy 5 game, marking a departure from her usual online purchasing habit. In stark contrast to her initial expectations of winning $10, she stumbled upon a massive prize of $309,989 through the Michigan Lottery app, making Fantasy 5 her favorite game and adding another significant jackpot win to Michigan's long list of lottery success stories.
