Trust Your Gut: How a Kent County Woman Turned a Midnight Craving into a $1,000,000 Lottery Payout

When you're not sure what you should do in certain situations people will often advise you to go with your gut.

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One Michigan woman recently listened to her gut and is a million dollars richer because of it.

The 53 year old Kent County resident who chose to remain anonymous shared with the Michigan Lottery that she bought her ticket D 28 Inc., located at 5 28th Street SW in Wyoming.

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She stopped and bought the winning lottery ticket while out grabbing a late night bite to eat.

I woke up hungry late one night, so I went out on a food run, While I was out, I bought a few lottery tickets and scratched them when I got home. It was shocking when I scratched off my Lady Luck 777 ticket and saw I’d won $1 million. I had a hard time going back to sleep that night!

What a lucky story, I mean just imagine if she had decided to order food through DoorDash, she would have never bought the winning ticket.

The woman took her winning ticket to Michigan Lottery headquarters in Lansing and ended up going with a cash lump sum payout which will give her around $693,000 instead of the full million paid out over time.

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There have been several big lottery wins in recent months in Michigan.

A Michigan woman won $100,000 playing Powerball thanks to ChatGPT.

Another big winner was a Michigan man who bought an extra Fantasy 5 ticket and won $500,000

You can learn more about big Michigan Lottery winners by clicking here.