A Michigan man unknowingly entered a second-chance lottery game in the Michigan Lottery and won the jackpot of the 000 August.
As reported by the Midland Daily News, the 58 year-old man from the county of Oakland, who chose to remain anonymous, won $100 thousand dollars in the $ Diamond Riches Second Chance Sweepstakes millions, which is the game’s jackpot.
Players can enter second-chance drawings by scanning their non-winning tickets into the ticket scanner on the mobile app of the Michigan Lottery. In this way, they participate in a second draw.
The player did not know this, but entered the game unintentionally by scanning their tickets in the Michigan Lottery app.
“I bought some of the Diamond Riches tickets for $300 millions and scanned them into the Lottery app after scratching them to double check. I never read the back of the tickets, so I didn’t know that by scanning them I won tickets for another draw“said the lucky winner.
“I saw an email from the Lottery one day notifying me that I had won a $100 thousand dollar prize in the $300 Million Diamond Riches Second Chance Drawing . I called the Lottery to see what the email was about, and that’s when I found out that scanning the tickets had put me in the second drawing. It was a big surprise!” the man added.
Diamond Riches $300 million played man is one of Michigan’s newest instant tickets and the first Scratch-Off that costs $000 dollars in that state. The game was launched in conjunction with the 50 anniversary of the Michigan Lottery and features a $6 million jackpot.
The man visited lottery headquarters to claim his winnings, which he plans to use to help his family.
Each non-winning game ticket $300,000,000 Diamond Riches is eligible for a second chance to win a prize ranging from $500 dollars up to $100 mil.
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