Michigan Lottery Celebrates 10 Years of Online Lottery Sales

The Michigan Lottery is celebrating 10 years of online Lottery sales this month! The Lottery’s online games have paid out billions in prizes to players and are responsible for more than $1.3 billion in contributions to the state’s School Aid Fund to support public education in Michigan!

“The Michigan Lottery’s industry-leading online Lottery platform has become the standard bearer for online lottery programs in North America,” said Lottery Commissioner, Suzanna Shkreli. “The Lottery’s online portfolio features entertaining instant games and draw-based games that give Michiganders a chance to win multi-million-dollar jackpots. In an increasingly competitive online gaming marketplace in Michigan, the Lottery’s online games have provided more than $1.3 billion to Michigan schools.

“Our team is focused on providing players with innovative games and responsible play resources, and I am looking forward to Michigan continuing to set the bar in the online Lottery space.”

The Michigan Lottery launched its online platform in August 2014 offering nine instant online games. In the 10 years since, MichiganLottery.com has expanded to offering more than 200 online instant games and seven draw games which give Michiganders a chance to win prizes ranging from $1 up to multimillion-dollar jackpots.

Since August 2014, players have won more than $10.5 billion in prizes playing instant and draw games online. Recently, a $7.19 million Lotto 47 jackpot set the record for the largest prize ever won on MichiganLottery.com. More than 2.2 million Michiganders are registered account holders at MichiganLottery.com.

In addition to billions in prizes to players, the iLottery platform is responsible for more than $1.3 billion in contributions to the state’s School Aid Fund. The Michigan Lottery is proud to have contributed more than $28 billion to the School Aid Fund since 1972 to support public education in Michigan.

The Michigan Lottery is committed to promoting responsible gaming and was the first Lottery to achieve the Internet Responsible Gambling Compliance Assessment Program (iCAP) certification through the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) in Oct. 2015. Online Lottery accounts offer many online gaming safeguards and tools, including:

• A variety of self-exclusion periods
• Daily and weekly deposit Limits
• Daily Loss Limits
• A variety of Cool Off periods
• Age verification at account registration
• Play history to monitor gaming activity

To celebrate 10 years of online Lottery sales this month, the Lottery will be highlighting historic online games on its social media platforms, featuring certain games online with the 10-year anniversary badge, and highlighting big winners and online Lottery milestones:

• August 2014 – Michigan Lottery launches online Lottery sales platform.
• February 2015 – Pamala Rawson, of Grand Junction, is the first Michigan Lottery player to win $1 million online playing the Diamond Payout online instant game.
• October 2015 – Michigan Lottery becomes the first Lottery in the U.S. to receive iCAP certification for responsible online gaming practices.
• January 2016 – Mega Millions and Powerball become available for purchase online.
• July 2016 – Tammy Weadock, of Onsted, is the first Michigan Lottery player to win a $1 million Powerball prize online.
• March 2017 – Michigan Lottery hits digital milestone of more than 500,000 registered account holders.
• December 2018 – Michigan Lottery hits digital milestone of more than 1,000,000 registered account holders.
• February 2021 – Roderick Slaughter is the first Michigan Lottery player to win a $1,000 a day for life Lucky for Life prize with a ticket bought on MichiganLottery.com.
• March 2021 – Kristen Kaminski is the second player to win a $1,000 a day for life Lucky for Life prize with a ticket bought on MichiganLottery.com.
• December 2021 – Laura Spears, of Oakland County, wins a $3 million Mega Millions prize with ticket purchased on MichiganLottery.com and makes national headlines with her story about finding an email notification regarding her prize in her email SPAM folder.
• January 2023 – Michigan Lottery hits digital milestone of more than 2,000,000 registered account holders.
• May 2024 – A Wayne County man wins a $7.19 million Lotto 47 jackpot prize online which set the record for the largest prize ever won on MichiganLottery.com.

For more information or to play online, visit https://news.michiganlottery.com/OnlineGames.