Employee ‘red hot’ after winning big prize in Michigan lottery

A 46-year-old Michigan woman was on break at work when she decided to buy a $5 instant scratch game lottery ticket.

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She “scratched it right away” — and at first she didn’t think the ticket was a winner, according to a March 8 news release from the Michigan Lottery. But then she looked the Mystery Key Cashword ticket over once more.

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She had won the game’s top $300,000 prize, officials said.

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“When I realized how much I’d won, I turned bright red and a coworker asked if I was okay, so I handed him the ticket and had him look it over,” the Oakland County woman, who chose to remain anonymous, told lottery officials.

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“After that, I had a couple more coworkers look the ticket over to make sure I was reading it right,” she continued. “Eventually, I scanned it on the Lottery app and confirmed my $300,000 prize.”

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She recently went to claim her prize, officials said, and she plans to use her winnings to pay bills and save.

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“Winning feels unbelievable,” she said in the release.

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The woman purchased her winning ticket at a supermarket in Madison Heights, about 10 miles northwest of downtown Detroit.

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