"I play Lotto 47 regularly and always buy one ticket for the drawing. Store clerks usually say, 'Just one?' and I always tell them, 'It only takes one to win,'" the man told lottery officials.
"I didn't realize I had won for a couple of weeks. I stack my tickets up and then my wife scans them on the app to see if we won. When she scanned this ticket, she told me we'd won but I was certain she was just joking with me. When she started crying, I knew it wasn't a joke at all," he continued.
The man choose to receive his winnings as a lump-sum payment of about $2.3 million. He said for now he will put the money in the bank and let the win sink in.
Recently, an unidentified Michigan Lottery player was unaware that he had won $242,256 until he came across some tickets in his wallet.
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