KALAMAZOO COUNTY, Mich. – A Michigan man won a million-dollar prize after purchasing several different scratch-off lottery tickets.
The 59-year-old Kalamazoo County man, who decided to remain anonymous, purchased his winning 50X ticket at Ziggy’s, which is located at 5384 North Riverview Drive in Kalamazoo.
“I play what I like to call ‘scratch-off roulette’ where I buy a bunch of different scratch-off tickets and then scratch the barcodes and scan them to see if I won,” the player told Michigan Lottery officials. “When I scanned this 50X ticket, I got a message to contact the Lottery, so I scratched off the play area.”
He was hoping for a $1 million prize, and was shocked we he actually won.
“When I saw I matched number 1, I thought: ‘A $1 million prize would be nice!’ Then I scratched off the prize amount and was in shock when I saw I’d actually won $1 million! Winning is freeing, life-changing, and still setting in,” said the player.
The 59-year-old decided to collect his prize as a one-time lump sum payment of about $694,000. He plans to save his prize money so that he and his wife can retire early.
The 50X game launched in February, and since then, people have won more than $16 million playing the game.
Players have the chance to win prizes from $10 up to $1 million with each $10 ticket.
