I didn’t spend a dollar to win but was sitting with the ticket buyer when I hit jackpot
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A LUCKY teenager has won a lottery jackpot and made the discovery while sitting beside the buyer of the ticket.
The 19-year-old from Michigan, who has decided to remain anonymous, won $613,848 on a Lucky 7's Fast Cash ticket.
However, it was paid for by her friend who decided to buy an early Christmas present.
The friend made the purchase at the Mobil gas station in Detroit.
Little did the friend know that he'd handed over a winning ticket worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Despite this, when the pair made the shocking realization, they were both ecstatic.
"We started screaming and pumping up and down," the winner said.
They told the Michigan Lottery: "I was out with a friend, and he purchased a Lucky 7’s Fast Cash ticket while we were at the gas station.
"He handed the ticket to me and said he bought it for me because he wanted to get me a little something as an early Christmas gift.”
The Lucky 7's ticket sees players match the numbers printed under "Your Numbers" to those under the title "Winning Numbers."
Each winning number has a different monetary value attached.
However, one or more numbers could carry the Jackpot, of which a winner gets 100 percent.
The lucky winner in January said: "We looked the ticket over together and when we saw I’d won the jackpot, we started screaming and jumping up and down!
"We looked the ticket over several times because we couldn’t believe it was real.
"I called my family right away to tell them the good news."
The winner claimed her prize at the lottery headquarters and said that she planned to save the prize money.
The current estimated progressive jackpot of Lucky 7's as of July 13 is $715,545, according to the Michigan Lottery.
According to the lottery, the odds of winning the progressive jackpot are one in 500,000.
Meanwhile, the overall odds of making a win on the Lucky 7's is one in three with $10 being the smallest prize.
