Amanda Hughes (left) and her daughter Kaitlyn Hughes (right) holding $500,000 check.
A suggestion from a store clerk led to an Upper Peninsula woman winning $500,000 playing the Michigan Lottery’s 50X Wild Time instant game!
“I don’t play scratch off tickets a lot, but I do buy one every once in a while,” said Amanda Hughes of Gwinn. “When I was at the store, I asked for the $20 Wild Time game, but they had sold out of it, so the clerk suggested 50X Wild Time.
“When I scratched the ticket off and saw the prize of $500,000, I wasn’t sure if it was real at first. I thought I must not have read the instructions correctly, so I reread them and then went back into the store to scan the ticket and have the clerk look at it. It was surreal when I realized I really had just won $500,000!”
“I still can’t believe this is real! This money is going to be life changing for my family.”
Players have won more than $67 million playing 50X Wild Time, which launched in February 2024. Each $10 ticket offers players a chance to win prizes ranging from $10 up to $500,000. More than $24 million in prizes remain, including 52 $10,000 prizes and 96 $1,000 prizes.
In 2024, Lottery players won nearly $1.8 billion playing instant games.
Lottery instant games may be purchased at retailers across the state.