Lottery player asks store clerk to pick game for her. It was a life-changing decision

With a $20 coupon and uncertainty of what to do with it, a Michigan woman put her fate in a store clerk’s hand.

The decisions from the 30-year-old Delta County woman and North Bluff Grocery store worker paid off in a life-changing way, the Michigan Lottery said in a Jan. 8 news release.

“I won a $20 coupon playing Daily Spin to Win, so I took it to the store and asked the clerk which ticket I should buy,” the winner told Michigan Lottery officials. “She suggested the new $2,000,000 Cash Multiplier game, so that’s what I purchased.”

The $2,000,000 Cash Multiplier game costs $20 to play — exactly the amount the woman had on her coupon.

The ticket chosen by the clerk was a multi-million dollar winner.

“I scratched the ticket when I got home and had a hard time believing it was real when I saw I won $2 million,” she told lottery officials. “I called my dad, and he told me to take it to the retailer to double check it. When the retailer confirmed it was a winning ticket, I called my dad screaming as soon as I got in my car!”

The $2 million prize is one of three offered in the game, which also has 20 $20,000 prizes.

Lottery officials said the winner chose the one-time lump sum payment of $1.3 million. She plans to use the money for investing and paying bills.

Delta County is in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, about 150 miles northeast of Green Bay, Wisconsin.

This story was originally published January 8, 2024 at 7:30 AM with the headline "Lottery player asks store clerk to pick game for her. It was a life-changing decision."