Michigan woman turns birthday money into $150,000 prize

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA Michigan woman spent twenty dollars of her birthday money on an online lottery game and won one hundred fifty thousand dollars, UPI reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwenty dollars into a hundred and fifty thousand. That's a very tidy bit of arithmetic.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe game is called Lucky Coins Disco Pig. She is forty-seven and from Oakland County.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorDisco Pig. Somebody in a meeting said that name out loud and everybody nodded.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd when the number came up, she thought she might be in demo mode.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWhich tells you how often these games pay out, if the first guess is that it's pretend. Her instincts are better than the pig's.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorShe plans a new car and savings. She called it the best birthday gift ever.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe money came from her aunt's card, sent a few days early. So technically the aunt picked the winner.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe aunt sent a card. The pig did the rest. I'd say the aunt wants her cut.