They say you have to be in it to win it, but one lucky bloke proved that saying wrong by winning an £86,000 lottery he didn’t even know he’d entered.

The 58-year-old, from Oakland County in Michigan, used the state lottery's app to scan a handful of non-winning $300,000,000 Diamond Riches tickets. But what he didn’t realise was that he was accidentally putting himself in line for a $100,000 (£86,318.50) jackpot.

Th lucky lottery winner, who asked not to be named, told Michigan State Lottery representatives: “I bought a few of the $300,000,000 Diamond Riches tickets and scanned them on the Lottery app after I scratched them to double check them".

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"I never read the back of the ticket," he added, "so I didn't know that by scanning them, I earned entries into a giveaway."

Because he wasn’t aware he had entered the competition, he was pretty confused when the email arrived to tell him that he had won $100,000 in the $300,000,000 Diamond Riches Second Chance drawing for August 17.

"I called the lottery to see what the email was about,” he said, “which is when I learned that scanning the tickets had entered me into a drawing. It was such a surprise”.

He added that he planned to use his surprise windfall to help his family out.

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Another Michigan Lottery winner revealed this week why they had waited until the very last minute before claiming their around £1,7m prize.

The 59-year-old man from Pennsylvania had matched the Lotto 47 numbers drawn on September 25, 2021 but waited for 11 months before claiming the $2.08 million jackpot.

“I purchased the ticket while I was in Michigan visiting family,” he explained to Michigan Lottery officials. “When I checked the winning numbers and saw I’d won the jackpot, I was in disbelief!”

“I waited to claim my prize until I had a plan in place for the money,” he explained.

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