Can a Non-Resident Win the Michigan Lottery? This Maryland Man Just Found Out

I've always wondered what would happen if someone that wasn't from Michigan decided to buy a lottery ticket in Michigan and ended up with a winner.

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Turns out you still get the money and that's exactly what recently happened to a 46-year-old man from Maryland.

The man who chose to remain anonymous shared with the Michigan Lottery how he ended up buying a winning $1,000,000 Lucky Numbers instant game.

I was in Michigan visiting family and stopped at the store on my way to the airport. I told the cashier to give me a few lottery tickets and then stuffed them in my bag to scratch later.

I forgot about the tickets, so it wasn’t until a few days later that I found them and scratched them off. When I saw I’d won $1 million, I thought: ‘This can’t be real.’ I sent a picture of the ticket to my friend to make sure I was reading it right, and he thought it was a prank ticket. We were both in disbelief. This is such a blessing!

This lucky Maryland man isn't the only one to win big recently playing the Michigan Lottery.

A Grand Blanc lottery club won a million dollars playing the Powerball.

A Kent County woman who went out to get some late-night food stopped at a gas station and ended up buying a winning ticket worth a million dollars.

You can check out more Michigan Lottery winners by clicking here.