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A Michigan Man Won The Lottery And Then Won It Again A Year Later

A 47-year-old man from Muskegon County, Michigan, has won a $1 million lottery prize, which would be a remarkable story on its own, except that it is actually his second major lottery win in just over a year. The man, who chose to stay anonymous, had already won roughly $367,000 playing the Fantasy 5 game in February 2025, and then in March of this year he purchased several tickets in the Michigan Lottery’s Millionaire Raffle game, liked the odds, and walked away with the $1 million top prize, bringing his total winnings across both games to just under $1.4 million. When he logged into his lottery account and saw the notification, he was so convinced it had to be an error that he closed the app and went to sleep, waiting until morning to check again, and finding the million dollars still sitting there quietly waiting for him. He told lottery officials he was still trying to process winning big twice, adding that he genuinely thought there had been some kind of technical glitch.

The Millionaire Raffle is a limited-entry game with exactly 100,000 tickets available, one top prize of $1 million, and 100 runner-up prizes of $1,000, meaning the odds of winning something are considerably better than in most lottery formats, which is apparently exactly what this particular player had calculated before buying in. He chose the game deliberately based on the math rather than impulse, purchased both of his big winning tickets through the Michigan Lottery’s online portal rather than at a store, and said his approach has always been to look at the numbers first. He plans to invest his latest winnings. Lottery officials, for their part, seemed genuinely delighted to see him walk through the door a second time.

Source: https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2026/04/20/michigan-man-wins-1m-its-his-second-big-lottery-prize-in-just-over-a-year/

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