Michigan Lotto Winner

$100,000 JACKPOT WON IN MICHIGAN

Donald Marcil of St. Clair Shores, Michigan won $100,000 plus twenty $20 third prizes on Sept. 1, 1992 in Michigan's Cash 5 5/39 drawing.

Donald Marcil wrote "Dear Gail, I am writing to let you know how pleased I am with your software. I have been using Advantage Gold and have won a number of small prizes. When you were writing your monthly lottery column for Gambling Times magazine in the early 1980's, I became an avid fan of yours. I was so happy when you came out with your computer programs. I didn't have to do everything by hand anymore.

"When Michigan began the Cash 5 game, March 20, 1992, I was trying to wheel numbers for that game using your wheel six programs. It was quite frustrating. Sometime in July of 1992, I was very pleased to learn that you also had a Wheel Five program. I immediately sent for that program and began using it.

"I was using Wheel Five [now Wheel 5 Gold] for only about six weeks when I was rewarded by winning the Cash 5 Jackpot for $100,000 dollars. I also had 20 prizes of $20 each for a total of $100,400 dollars using your Power Wheel #3810 wheeling 16 numbers in 137 games. I only used 69 of the 137 games because for that draw on Sept. 1, 1992, I was convinced by using your Advantage Gold program that only one single digit number, a 4, 5 or 6 would fall. It worked. The numbers were 6-13-17-34-37.

"Thank you, Gail. I never would have won without the help of your Wheel Five and Advantage Gold programs. I will be forever grateful to you. I feel that I will win the Cash 5 again because I feel very confident using your Wheel Five program [now Wheel 5 Gold]. Thank you, again, Gail. Sincerely yours, Donald Marcil."

Along with this letter, Donald Marcil sent me full documentation copy of his winning ticket (6-13-17-34-37), his congratulatory letter from the lottery, a copy of his check and a printout of the wheeled numbers he played, and a photograph of himself.

Donald told me he had watched the drawing on TV, but wrote down the numbers wrong—a 5 instead of a 6. He thought he had won a bunch of third prizes.

"My daughter, Karen, went with me to the store. When we walked in, I realized I had the wrong numbers, so i said I'd go home and check my tickets again. Karen went out to the car, and I decided to hang around at the counter and started looking through my tickets to compare with the new number. I had written down a 5 instead of the 6.

"The man standing next to me looked over at me and saw the numbers and said, 'You got 'em all.' Just like that. He was an older, laid-back man. That's what I remember most about this whole thing is just the way he said that 'You got 'em all.'

"Suddenly I was getting kind of chilled. I had some goose bumps. It threw me for a loop there. I was confused for a minute. I walked out to the car and my daughter saw me coming. She said I was pale and had a strange look on my face, and asked me, 'You got 'em all?' I said, 'Yeah, I got 'em all.' Then I checked my ticket four or five times to make sure.

"I had a lot of faith in your programs and I actually expected to win. I didn't know when. But I knew I was going to win because I spent hours and hours looking through the numbers. Sometimes my daughter said something about the time I spent, and I said, 'You know what? You don't get something for nothing.' I'll spend hours looking over their numbers and if I don't like them, I don't play. "