“I am going to pay off my home and then celebrate by taking my wife out to a nice dinner.” The player recently visited Lottery headquarters to claim his prize.
When $300,000 continued coming up on the screen, we both started hollering!” “I showed my wife, and she took the ticket and started scanning it over and over. When I saw the winning amount, I thought: ‘This can’t be real.’ “I scratched the barcode right away and scanned the ticket. “We were heading to Northern Michigan for a family vacation, and I stopped to buy a Lottery ticket on the way,” said the player. The lucky 40-year-old player, who chose to remain anonymous, bought his winning ticket at Alma EZ Mart, located at 100 West Lincoln Road in Alma. A Calhoun County man had a remarkable start to his vacation when he made a pit stop on the way and won a $300,000 prize playing the Michigan Lottery’s X’s & O’s Bingo instant game.