CALHOUN COUNTY, MI (WNWN/WTVB) – A 40-year-old Calhoun County man won $300,000 recently while playing the Michigan Lottery’s X’s & O’s Bingo instant game.
The man chose to remain anonymous. He bought the winning ticket at the Alma EZ Mart in Alma as his family made a pit stop while they were heading up north for a vacation.
The lucky ticket holder told lottery officials, “We were heading to Northern Michigan for a family vacation, and I stopped to buy a Lottery ticket on the way. I scratched the barcode right away and scanned the ticket. When I saw the winning amount, I thought: ‘This can’t be real.’
“I showed my wife, and she took the ticket and started scanning it over and over. When $300,000 continued coming up on the screen, we both started hollering!”
The player recently visited Lottery headquarters to claim his prize.
The winner said he was going to pay off his house and take his wife out to a nice dinner with his winnings.
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