An Unplanned Detour Leads One Lucky Michigan Lottery Player to a $1 Million Prize

Michigan is a great place to live as long as you don't mind crazy weather that can change in an instant, and you don't mind seeing orange construction barrels that never go away.

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One Michigan woman should be thankful for those construction barrels because they're the reason why she just won a life-changing amount of money.

The 70-year-old woman from St. Clair County chose to remain anonymous but did share with the Michigan Lottery how she came to buy the winning ticket.

Credit: Michigan Lottery

“I play King Cashword all the time, Almost every day I walk to the store down the road to get a King Cashword ticket, but this particular day it was too hot to go for a walk, so I decided to drive instead. There was a lot of construction going on near the store that made it hard to get to, so I ended up going to a different store in the area that I’d never been to.

“Later that night, I scratched the ticket and couldn’t believe what I was seeing when I saw the $1 million prize. I called my son and he told me to sit down because he thought I was going to have a heart attack! I had to go to the store to scan my ticket because I needed to see proof that this was real. Winning is amazing and life changing.”

This lucky winner isn't the only person to win big playing the Michigan Lottery.

A man visiting Michigan from Maryland recently won $1,000,000 playing a Lucky Numbers instant win ticket.

A Bay County woman who had been playing Lotto 47 for 20 years with the same numbers hit it big and won $1.1 million.

And an Oakland County woman playing Fantasy 5 online accidentally selected a wrong number that resulted in her winning $250,000.

You can check out more Michigan Lottery winners by clicking here.