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.

Indiana woman Emily Hickox recently participated in a white elephant gift exchange — but she had no idea it would lead to her winning a prize worth half a million dollars.

Woman wins $500,000 from the lottery ticket she got randomly in a family Christmas gift exchange - Emily Hickox, 25, couldn’t believe her luck after she traded gifts with her dad – a flashlight – for

The 56-year-old Kalamazoo County man, who has chosen to stay anonymous, bought the winning ticket for $1 at a Portage gas station in December, lottery officials said in a Jan. 16 news release. He selected the numbers 03-07-10-27-29 on a Fantasy 5 ticket.

“It’s a miracle! An early Christmas miracle!” the winner from Wayne County said about the Dec. 4 drawing. He matched the winning numbers 02-10-13-24-29-46 on his $1 Lotto 47 ticket purchased at a drugstore in Westland, lottery officials said.

One ticket was sold matching all six numbers in Saturday evening’s drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery. The $303 million jackpot winning ticket was sold in Oregon. One ticket was sold matching five numbers but not the Powerball in Michigan and is worth $2 million because the winner played the Power Play option.