A 36-year-old took a roundabout approach to finding out if his Michigan lottery ticket was a big winner. The man bought the ticket at a BP convenience store in Farmington Hills, scratched off the bar code and scanned it, he told Michigan lottery officials.

The largest Michigan Lottery prize won or claimed in October was from an instant game. Michael Buckner of South Carolina, who works in Escanaba, purchased a $2,000,000 Mega Multiplier ticket at the Gladstone Mobil located at 2009 Lake Shore Drive in Gladstone,

A man who occasionally buys Michigan Lottery scratch-off tickets said he thought he was going to fall over when he discovered that his recent purchase made at a Farmington Hills gas station was a $6 million winner.

FARMINGTON HILLS — An Oakland County man said he thought he was “going to fall over” after learning he'd won $6 million playing the Michigan Lottery’s $300,000,000 Extraordinaire instant game.

An Oakland County man took a chance on a $10 dollar ticket and won $1 million from Michigan Lottery's Million Dollar Madness instant game, lottery officials announced. The 51-year-old, who chose to remain anonymous, bought his ticket at East Holly Oil in Holly Township, according to a Michigan Lottery press release on Thursday.