A Farmington hills guy wins $6 million recently in scratch off lottery
An Oakland County man said he thought he was “going to fall over” after learning he'd won $6 million playing the Michigan Lottery’s $300,000,000 Extraordinaire instant game.
The 36-year-old player, who chose to remain anonymous, bought his winning ticket at the BP gas station at 29434 Orchard Lake Road, the Michigan Lottery announced Nov. 13.
“I play scratch-off tickets here and there,” the player told the Michigan Lottery.
“When I bought this ticket, I scratched the barcode and scanned it before leaving the store. I got a message to file a claim at the Lottery office, so I finished scratching it off when I got home.
“When I saw it was a $6 million winning ticket, I kept saying: ‘I’m going to fall over!’ Winning this amount of money is such a blessing.”
The man recently visited Lottery headquarters to claim his prize, choosing to receive his winnings as a one-time lump sum payment of about $4.1 million.
