An Indiana woman won a $500,000 lottery by playing a Michigan instant game ticket over the holidays. Emily Hickox was gifted the lottery ticket through a white elephant gift exchange she participated ...

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

An Indiana woman won a $500,000 lottery by playing a Michigan instant game ticket over the holidays. Emily Hickox was gifted ...

Emily Hickox, an Indiana woman, unexpectedly won a $500,000 lottery jackpot after her father traded her winning ticket for a ...

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

Emily Hickox, 25, couldn’t believe her luck after she traded gifts with her dad – a flashlight – for the winning ticket ...

One Christmas gift exchange inadvertently went way over the price limit. Indiana resident Emily Hickox, 25, ended up with a Michigan Lottery ticket in a white elephant gift exchange, in which ...

"We made an agreement after the game to trade gifts," winner Emily Hickox said Danielle Jennings is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, covering stories in Human Interest and Sports. She joins PEOPLE ...

Emily Hickox was gifted the lottery ticket through a white elephant gift exchange she participated in with her family. She told Michigan Lottery she wasn't even the initial recipient of the ...