{"id":239944,"date":"2026-03-27T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/239944\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:00:17","slug":"oakland-county-woman-wins-1-2m-in-lotto-47-the-oakland-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/239944\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland County woman wins $1.2M in Lotto 47 \u2013 The Oakland Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playing the same numbers for years in the state\u2019s lottery finally paid off for an Oakland County woman who recently won $1.2 million in Lotto 47, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The 69-year-old woman, who has chosen to remain anonymous, matched the Lotto 47\u2019s six numbers \u2014 2, 16, 18, 19, 26 and 42 \u2014 in the March 11 drawing. She purchased the winning ticket at Cloverleaf BP station, located at 28995 Telegraph Rd. in Southfield, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>According to lottery officials, the woman said when she checked the winning numbers after the drawing she \u201crecognized them right away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI woke my husband and said: \u2018I think I just won the lottery.\u2019\u201cWe got my ticket and looked it over and that\u2019s when I knew I really had just won the lottery,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman recently claimed her prize at Lottery headquarters, choosing to receive a one-time lump sum payment of approximately $832,000 rather than annual payments for the $1.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to lottery officials, the woman said the windfall means her husband can retire and they can \u201crelax and enjoy life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Playing the same numbers for years in the state\u2019s lottery finally paid off for an Oakland County woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[22715,107919,107918,143,107920,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-239944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-lottery","9":"tag-lotto-47","10":"tag-michigan-lottery-win","11":"tag-oakland","12":"tag-oakland-county-woman-wins-1-7-million","13":"tag-oakland-headlines","14":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239944","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=239944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}