ALGONAC, Michigan — A 76-year-old man won a huge lottery jackpot in Michigan.
The St. Clair County man said he is looking forward to retiring after winning a $1.35 million jackpot playing the Diamond Wild Time Progressive Fast Cash game, according to a November 3 news release from the Michigan Lottery.
The man bought the ticket, which ranges in price from $2 per play to $30 per play, at a store in Algonac.
“I saw the Fast Cash jackpot was over $1 million, so I bought a ticket,” the man told lottery officials.
The man said he needed confirmation of the win.
“I looked the ticket over when I got home and saw a match with ‘Jackpot’ underneath, but I had to scan the ticket on the Lottery app to double-check it. I was so happy and excited when the scanner confirmed my $1.35 million win,” he said.
The total jackpot was for $2.7 million, and the man won half of it, lottery officials said.
As of November 3, the jackpot sits at $1.7 million.
Algonac is about a 50-mile drive northeast from Detroit.
By JENNIFER RODRIGUEZ/McClatchy News