{"id":736912,"date":"2022-01-06T01:38:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T01:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/michigan-woman-plays-same-lottery-numbers-for-years-wins-jackpot\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T01:38:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T01:38:16","slug":"michigan-woman-plays-same-lottery-numbers-for-years-wins-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/michigan-woman-plays-same-lottery-numbers-for-years-wins-jackpot\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan woman plays same lottery numbers ‘for years,’ wins jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brenda Walker, of Canton, Mich., said the numbers that earned her a lottery prize of $25,000 a year for life were the same numbers she has been using to play the lottery “for years.” Photo courtesy of the Michigan Lottery<\/p>\n

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Jan. 5 (UPI) —<\/span> A Michigan woman said she called a state lottery hotline after a drawing and immediately realized the digits that scored a prize of $25,000 for life were the lucky numbers she has used “for years.”<\/p>\n

Brenda Walker, 77, of Canton, told Michigan Lottery officials she bought a Lucky for Life ticket from the Canton Mini Mart and she called the lottery hotline the day after the Nov. 27 drawing to hear the results.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

“I’ve played a special set of numbers made up of birth dates and other special dates for years,” said Walker. “Every night after the drawing I call the winning numbers hotline and check my ticket.<\/p>\n

“When the numbers were read off, I recognized them right away and had to press the repeat option a few times to make sure I was hearing right.”<\/p>\n

Walker matched all five white balls from the drawing: 02-06-07-11-19. The numbers earned her a prize of $25,000 a year for life.<\/p>\n

“When it finally sank in, I jumped up in excitement and was filled with a warm, happy, and excited feeling. I am so thankful for this prize,” Walker said.\n<\/p>\n

Walker chose to receive her prize as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $390,000.<\/p>\n

She said some of the winnings will go toward buying a new car.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brenda Walker, of Canton, Mich., said the numbers that earned her a lottery prize of $25,000 a year for life were the same numbers she has been using to play the lottery “for years.” Photo courtesy of the Michigan Lottery Jan. 5 (UPI) — A Michigan woman said she called a state lottery hotline after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}