{"id":63670,"date":"2025-11-21T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/63670\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:09:07","slug":"oakland-county-woman-claims-prize-weeks-before-winning-ticket-expires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/63670\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland County Woman Claims Prize Weeks Before Winning Ticket Expires"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 21, 2025 <\/p>\n

\"Oakland<\/p>\n

\n Jessica Mathews \/ news@whmi.com <\/p>\n

An Oakland County woman claimed a $131,121 Fantasy 5 jackpot prize from the Michigan Lottery less than three weeks before the prize was set to expire.<\/p>\n

The 82-year-old player, who chose to remain anonymous, matched the Fantasy 5 numbers in the December 3rd, 2024 drawing to win the big prize: 07-10-21-22-26. <\/p>\n

The lucky player bought her winning ticket at Pike Food Center, located at 465 East Pike Street in Pontiac.<\/p>\n

The player said \u201cI occasionally play Fantasy 5 because a friend once told me, \u2018You can\u2019t win if you don\u2019t play. After the drawing, I scanned the ticket at the store and got a message to see the clerk. I went home and checked the winning numbers and that\u2019s when I realized I\u2019d won the jackpot. It was a pleasant surprise!\u201d<\/p>\n

The lucky player recently visited Lottery headquarters to claim her jackpot. She plans to share her winnings with her family.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I found out I won, I planned to hold onto the ticket for a little while before claiming, and then life got crazy, so I ended up holding onto it for longer than I planned,\u201d said the player. \u201cIt\u2019s a relief to finally be cashing it in!\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"November 21, 2025 Jessica Mathews \/ news@whmi.com An Oakland County woman claimed a $131,121 Fantasy 5 jackpot prize…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,3844],"class_list":{"0":"post-63670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news","11":"tag-whmi-radio-93-5-livingston-michigan-news-weather-traffic-sports-classic-rock-howell-brighton-fenton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63670","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=63670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}