SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – A man won the exact same jackpot for the second time in six months after buying a lottery ticket in Oakland County.
The 59-year-old Wayne County resident bought a Fantasy 5 Double Play ticket at the BP gas station at 19995 West 9 Mile Road in Southfield and matched the numbers from the Feb. 11 drawing: 02-06-11-20-23.
He won a $110,000 prize, which is exactly what he got in September 2023, when he matched all five numbers from the Aug. 31 drawing. That ticket was bought at the same gas station.
“The first time I won I was able to pay off all my debt,” the man said. “Now I get to have some fun. I don’t have any special plans for the money yet. I plan to sit back and just look at it in my bank account for awhile.”
He claimed his prize at Michigan Lottery headquarters and chose to remain anonymous.
“After winning $110,000 back in August, I switched up my Fantasy 5 numbers,” he said. “I took my tickets to the store to check and replay them. The clerk scanned the tickets and handed me one back and said, ‘I think you won big.’ I thought, ‘There is no way. I can’t be that lucky.’ I looked up the winning numbers, and sure enough, I had won again. I couldn’t believe it. Winning is such a blessing.”