An Oceana County woman turned a $100 online prize into a $1 million prize playing the Michigan Lottery’s Millionaire Raffle game!
The lucky 63-year-old player, who chose to remain anonymous, bought her raffle ticket online at Michiganmilotteryconnect.horsewinners.net.
“I won $100 playing an online game, so I decided to use some of my winnings to purchase Powerball and Mega Millions tickets online,” said the player. “When I was purchasing those tickets, I saw the Millionaire Raffle game and thought: ‘Why not?’ and purchased one ticket.
“I forgot I had purchased the raffle ticket until I saw an email from the Lottery one day with information on claiming my prize. I didn’t believe it when I logged into my Lottery and saw a $1 million prize pending. I logged out and logged back in several times and the prize was still there, so I knew it had to be real. I am still trying to wrap my head around it!”
“Purchasing a Millionaire Raffle ticket on a whim led to a huge $1 million payday for this lucky player!” said Lottery Commissioner Suzanna Shkreli. “The Lottery’s online platform offers players several different ways to play and win with online instant games, draw games, and online raffles, including the Millionaire Raffle game.”
The lucky player visited Lottery headquarters recently to claim her prize. She plans to save her winnings.
Millionaire Raffle is an auto-renewing raffle game which launched Dec. 10. The game offers 100,000 tickets available for purchase. Once all 100,000 tickets are sold, a drawing is conducted. Each drawing awards one $1 million top prize and 100 $1,000 prizes. After the drawing takes place, tickets for the next drawing become available for purchase.
Players may check their tickets by viewing the winning raffle numbers online at Michiganmilotteryconnect.horsewinners.net. Players also may check their tickets by logging into their Michigan Lottery .
Michigan Lottery players have a chance to win prizes ranging from $1 up to multimillion-dollar jackpots playing online instant games, Powerball, Mega Millions, Lucky for Life, Lotto 47, and Fantasy 5 online. Through its online platform, the Lottery offers players more than 200 different games with plays ranging in price from 5 cents to $50.
More than 1 million players have ed to play the Lottery’s online games, which were launched in 2014. For more information or to play online, visit https://news.michiganmilotteryconnect.horsewinners.net/OnlineGames.
