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UPI
10-07-2025
- Business
- UPI
Michigan man wins $500,000 lottery prize due to unavailable ticket
A Michigan man won a $500,000 lottery prize after the store he visited was sold out of the scratch-off ticket he originally intended to buy. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo July 10 (UPI) -- A Michigan man won a $500,000 lottery prize thanks to his local store being sold out of the ticket he had originally intended to buy. The 57-year-old Tuscola County man told Michigan Lottery officials he had a specific scratch-off game in mind when he visited the Speedway on West Caro Road in Caro. "I stopped at the gas station to buy a Triple Red 777s ticket, but they were sold out, so I told the cashier to give me a Detroit Tigers ticket instead," the player recalled. "It was hard to believe when I saw I'd won $500,000, but after looking the ticket over several times, I told myself it must be real." The man said he needed a second opinion to fully believe his luck. "I signed the ticket and took it back into the store to have the cashier check it. After she scanned it, she handed it back and said: 'Looks like you have to go to Lansing for this one!' Winning $500,000 is an answered prayer and still hasn't fully sunk in." The winner said his prize money will go toward helping his family and investing.
Miami Herald
10-07-2025
- Miami Herald
Store ran out of lottery tickets Michigan man wanted, but fate was on his side
A little bit of bad luck turned out to be just the thing a Michigan lottery player needed to win big. The 57-year-old Tuscola County man, who chose to remain anonymous, went into a Speedway gas station in Caro to buy a Triple Red 777s ticket, but the store was sold out, lottery officials said in a July 10 news release. Unable to get the ticket he wanted, he settled for something different, a Detroit Tigers instant game scratch-off, the release said. But the man scratched off the ticket to reveal fate had been on his side the whole time. He won the jackpot. 'It was hard to believe when I saw I'd won $500,000, but after looking the ticket over several times, I told myself it must be real,' he told lottery officials. 'I signed the ticket and took it back into the store to have the cashier check it. After she scanned it, she handed it back and said: 'Looks like you have to go to Lansing for this one!'' he said. 'Winning $500,000 is an answered prayer and still hasn't fully sunk in.' After picking up his prize from lottery headquarters, he told officials he plans to invest the money and also help out family. Caro is a roughly 90-mile drive north from Detroit.
