LANSING, June 14, 2007 – What would you do with $10.8 million?  Well, you could be the lucky winner to grab the cash with a Classic Lotto 47 ticket!  Saturday’s Classic Lotto 47 jackpot has ballooned to a huge $10.8 million!  No winning tickets were sold matching all six numbers on Wednesday night, so the prize continues to grow.

Eight tickets were sold Saturday night matching five of six numbers to win $2,500 each.  The winning numbers were 12 13 16 33 44 46.  The next drawing is Saturday.

Classic Lotto 47 is a six-digit game drawn Wednesdays and Saturdays.  Jackpots begin at $1 million and increase by $100,000 in every drawing.

The previous record jackpot in Classic Lotto 47, which was launched May 15, 2005, was $7,691,973, which was won on October 18, 2006 by a player from Sterling Heights.

Classic Lotto 47 tickets can be purchased at any Lottery retailer and sales for Wednesday night’s drawing will close at 7:08 p.m. on Wednesday.

All proceeds from the Lottery are contributed to the state School Aid Fund which supports kindergarten through 12th grade public education in Michigan.  In fiscal year 2006, the contribution was $688 million.

For additional information, please visit the Lottery’s Web site at https://www.michiganlottery.com/.

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