I won $613k in the lottery and I didn't even buy my ticket
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A LOTTO winner has told how she scooped a whopping $600,000 prize on the game of chance even though she didn’t buy the ticket.
The teenager, 19, said that she was given the ticket as an early Christmas present by her friend.
The winner’s pal bought the $10 Lucky 7s lotto ticket at a Mobil gas station in Detroit, as reported by the Fox affiliate WJBK.
She scooped $613,848 on the game and told the network how she “screamed” when she realized she had come up trumps.
The winner said: “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."
She said that she had to look at the ticket several times as she didn’t know if her win was real or not.
The woman said: “We looked over the ticket over together and when we saw I’d won the jackpot, we started screaming and jumping up and down!”
Lotto players have odds of one in three of winning a prize on the Lucky 7s game, per The Michigan Lottery.
Players have odds of one in 100,000 of winning a $4,000 sum and a one in 500,000 chance of winning the progressive jackpot.
Officials at the Michigan Lottery have said that players should sign their winning tickets immediately before claiming their prize.
Lotto players have told how they’ve won a huge prize on tickets that they were given to them as presents.
Tanya Monahan, from Canada, said she only played the lottery occasionally before pocketing a $100,000 prize.
She had been given a $100 Instant Ultimate lotto ticket by her husband and played at the end of Christmas Day, as reported by Daily Hive Canada.
She told OLG Lottery that her heart was “pounding” when she realized she had won.
The U.S. Sun reported how Jade Jenkins won $100,000 on a ticket that was given to her by her friend.
Kaleb Heng, from California, won the jackpot after scratching off a ticket he was given for his 18th birthday by his grandmother.
But, he had to wait to claim his prize as he had to get a state ID first.
Kaleb told California Lottery officials that he wanted to use the money for college and “invest in his future.”
