{"id":121034,"date":"2026-01-05T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/121034\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:08:07","slug":"oakland-county-man-wins-1-million-prize-in-michigan-lottery-super-raffle-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/121034\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland County man wins $1 million prize in Michigan Lottery Super Raffle game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Oakland County man won $1 million from the Michigan Lottery&#8217;s Super Raffle game, state officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old player chose to remain anonymous upon claiming his prize recently from Michigan Lottery headquarters. He chose to get a one-time payment of about $693,000, rather than annuity payments for the full amount. He plans to save his winnings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Super Raffle ticket with the number 172580 was picked in the Nov. 19 drawing for the game. The player bought the ticket at Kakoz 2 LLC on Dequindre Road in Sterling Heights.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/super-raffle-slider.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"super-raffle-slider.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A $1 million prize-winning ticket in the Nov. 19, 2025, Michigan Lottery Super Raffle.<\/p>\n<p>                Michigan Lottery<\/p>\n<p>This was of two $1 million prizes allocated in the game, and the second-highest prize a player could win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My brother told me about the Super Raffle game, so I asked him to buy me a ticket when he went and got one for himself and I ended up getting lucky,&#8221; the player said. &#8220;When I saw my raffle ticket was a $1 million winner, I couldn&#8217;t believe it. I had to check it several times before it started to sink in that I really won. I feel stress-free and like a weight has been lifted from my chest!&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Michigan Lottery\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/news\/westland-woman-wins-100000-in-michigan-lottery-raffle-game\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported a Wayne County woman<\/a>\u00a0held one of the 12 tickets that won a $100,000 prize from the Nov. 19 Super Raffle drawing, which is the third-highest payout in that game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oakland County man won $1 million from the Michigan Lottery&#8217;s Super Raffle game, state officials said.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[795,20364,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-121034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-michigan","tag-michigan-lottery","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}