LANSING, MI — An Ingham County woman got the surprise of a lifetime when she logged on to her Michigan Lottery account and found out she’d won $100,000 a year for life playing the Michigan Lottery’s Millionaire For Life game.
The lucky 71-year-old player, who chose to remain anonymous, matched the five white balls – 01-16-26-40-44 – in the Aug. 20 drawing to win the big prize. She purchased the tickets online.
“I’ve been playing Millionaire For Life since the game started earlier this year,” the player. “Every morning when I wake up, I log in to my Michigan Lottery account to do my Daily Spin to Win. The morning after the drawing, a pop-up came up when I logged in notifying me of a prize. I thought it said I won $2,000 and I was excited about that. Then I realized I had actually won over $2 million! It was unbelievable.”
The Ingham County woman recently visited Lottery headquarters in downtown Lansing to claim her prize. She chose to receive her prize as annual payments of $100,000 a year for 20 years or life, whichever is greater, rather than a one-time lump sum payment of $2.2 million.
With her winnings, the woman told lottery officials she plans to complete home renovations and then save the remainder.
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