‘I Screamed so Loud That I Scared My Son’: Michigan Woman Wins $1 Million on Scratch-Off

A $10 Ticket and a 31% Discount

An anonymous 58-year-old subordinate from Kent County scratched the apical prize connected the Michigan Lottery’s $1,000,000 Bonus Scratch Multiplier, the lottery announced connected Aug. 31. She bought the summons astatine Aikan Liquor astatine 1640 44th Street Southeast successful Kentwood and has since claimed the prize astatine lottery headquarters.

“I bargain a lottery summons astir each day, and typically bargain my tickets astatine each antithetic stores,” she said successful the lottery’s statement. “I scratched my $1,000,000 Bonus Scratch Multiplier summons erstwhile I got location from the store, and erstwhile I saw I’d won $1 million, I screamed truthful large that I frightened my son.” She described the triumph arsenic a alleviation that would mean nary much stress, and said she plans to prevention the money.

She took the prize arsenic a one-time lump sum of astir $693,000 alternatively than annuity payments for the afloat amount, a 31% discount connected the advertised fig and the modular trade-off successful U.S. lottery payouts. The reported total, earlier immoderate tax, is $1 million; the wealth she receives is astir two-thirds of it.

The $10 crippled launched successful February and has paid retired much than $16 million, with prizes ranging from $10 to the $1 cardinal apical tier. More than $29 cardinal successful prizes are inactive outstanding, including 2 remaining $1 cardinal tickets, 13 prizes of $10,000, and 106 of $2,000. Michigan players won much than $1.7 cardinal connected instant games during 2025.

The triumph follows a tally of seven-figure scratch and lottery payouts crossed regulated U.S. and European games this summer. A subordinate won $1 cardinal connected his structure the time aft house-hunting earlier this month, and an Italian sanitation unit recovered a $1.15 cardinal lottery summons discarded implicit a azygous word.