I thought there was an error on my lottery jackpot message when I won $750,000
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A LUCKY lottery champ who pocketed a $750,000 jackpot initially thought the message alerting him to the massive was a mistake.
William Chamberlain, 78, revealed how buying a ticket from an unexpected place helped him to bag the top prize.
Chamberlain purchased three $5 Fantasy Five tickets via an online lottery system.
"I logged in to my account the next day and saw a message about claiming my prize. When I saw that my account balance was $751,265, I thought there was an issue with my account," the man told MI Lottery Connect.
After telling his wife that something must be wrong with his account, he called the Michigan lottery office.
"I started shaking when they confirmed that I had won the jackpot."
Shopping online for lottery tickets is an easy way to stay in the game without having to stop at a convenience store.
Online lottery vendors have the same beloved selection as a local deli.
Chamberlain purchased his tickets on MichiganLottery.com, which displays boxes with recent winning numbers, drawing times, and jackpot amounts.
The corner of the box has an inviting, green "buy now" button.
On the other hand, buying physical scratch-offs come with some of its own strategies.
Joey Adelman, known as @nibulousnebula on TikTok, gave readers little-known information about instant lottery games.
In his insider video, he pulls out a scratch-off labeled "$50, $100, or $500, which he claims to have the worst odds.
"These tickets right here, or anything named like this (with cash prize numbers) is the worst odds of winning," with just a one in eight chance."
"That's the worst of any ticket, no other ticket is even close to that."
Most other tickets have a one in four chance of earning the player a prize, he explained.
"The best chances of winning are if you spend the most money," Joey revealed about "top row" scratch-offs.
High-price scratchers that cost players "$20 or $30" are alleged by the expert to have a one in three chance of being a winning ticket.
Even the dollar tickets, Joey claimed, boast one in four odds.
As for Chamberlain, his online earnings of three-quarters of a million dollars will go to paying off some bills, and padding out his savings account, MI Lottery Connect reported.
“I haven’t stopped shaking or been able to sleep since I won, it still doesn’t seem real,” he said.
