A Michigan woman bought a stack of scratch-off lottery tickets to give as gifts and the only one she kept for herself turned out to be a $1 million winner.

Miracle Trust of Plymouth has claimed a $2.5 million prize in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s “$2,500,000 Merry & Bright” instant ticket game, lottery officials said Monday.

A Clinton County woman won $1 million on Christmas on a Michigan Lottery instant game that she picked up while buying tickets as holiday gifts.

A Michigan woman gifted her relatives lottery tickets for Christmas, hoping one of them would be the “big” one. But it was hers — the one she kept for herself — that left her stunned, lottery officials said.

A high school teacher didn’t know it at the time, but she received a very valuable Christmas gift last year — a winning Virginia Lottery ticket. Kayten Stroop later checked the numbers in Virginia’s New Year’s Millionaire Raffle and learned she had won a second-tier prize of $100,000, the Virginia Lottery said Jan. 22.

Indiana resident Emily Hickox, 25, ended up with a winning Michigan Lottery ticket worth $500,000 after doing a white elephant gift exchange with her family.

A Welland woman got a Christmas gift that most people only dream of. Jessica Young won an Encore lottery prize of $100,000 in the Dec. 25 Ontario 49 draw. She found out she won not long after when she scanned her ticket using Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.’s mobile app.

A Clinton County woman’s yearly tradition landed her a $1 million jackpot prize while she was playing the Michigan Lottery’s Major Cashword instant game. “I bought several lottery tickets to give to family members as Christmas gifts,