LANSING, Mich. — A 75-year-old woman from Kalamazoo County scored $300,000 in an instant-win game with the Michigan Lottery.
We’re told she played the Cashword Times 5 game with a ticket purchased at a BP gas station in Galesburg on East Michigan Avenue.
“Cashword is my favorite game, and I play it a lot,” the player told Michigan Lottery after her big win. “I was scratching my ticket and saw I had revealed five red words. I looked at the prize legend and saw five red words was not listed, so I looked the ticket over again. When I found another red word and saw the prize of $300,000, I thought: ‘This can’t be right!’”
Michigan Lottery says the woman intends to buy a new car and support family members with her winnings.
