BLANCHARD, Mich. – A $500,000 Michigan Lottery win while playing a Detroit Lions game left a couple “dumbfounded.”
A 74-year-old man from Isabelle County bought his winning ticket at the GCK Oil Inc. at 206 Main Street in Blanchard, which is southwest of Mount Pleasant.
“I went to the store to buy a Powerball ticket, and my wife told me to get a few Detroit Lions tickets while I was there,” he said. “I scratched the tickets the next morning, and when I saw the $500,000 prize, I said to my wife, ‘Looks like we’re going to Lansing.’
“When I told her how much we’d won, she thought she was going to pass out. We were both dumbfounded. The shock hasn’t worn off yet, so we still can’t think straight, but what we do know is that this prize is going to be life-changing for us.”
The winner chose to remain anonymous.
He visited Michigan Lottery headquarters to claim his prize. He said he plans to donate, set some money aside for grandchildren, and save the rest.
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