Sadler and her fellow club member claimed the prize at the Michigan Lottery headquarters in Lansing and said they planned to invest in their retirements.
The prize later rose to $1.76 billion, making it the second-largest lottery jackpot ever won by a single ticket, which was sold in California. 10 ticket matched all five white ball numbers – 09-25-27-53-66 – but it missed the Powerball number, which would have hit the then-$526.5 million jackpot. 'So when he answered and told me he had to pay extra for overseas calls, I said the code word and I told him he wasn't going to have to worry about the bill.' 'We had always joked that we'd use a special code word if we won,' she told the Michigan Lottery. He was on vacation overseas and almost didn't answer. When Sadler checked her ticket and saw the winning numbers she couldn't wait to call the other member of lottery club, called the CCKMA club. Kristi Sadler's winning ticket is pictured.
