A 25-year-old Indiana woman won $500,000 from a lottery ticket she ended up with at her family's white elephant gift exchange. Emily Hickox, of Indianapolis, scratched off the winning Michigan Lottery ...

Emily Hickox, of Indianapolis, scratched off the winning Michigan Lottery ticket after deciding to swap gifts with her father. 'My dad actually won the ticket in the gift exchange, and I won the ...

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

Emily Hickox, 25, couldn’t believe her luck after she traded gifts with her dad – swapping a flashlight for the lotto numbers – and realized the ticket she had won was worth half-a-million ...

Emily Hickox said her cousin purchased the ticket for a white elephant gift exchange at their family Christmas party, according to Michigan Lottery. "My dad actually won the ticket in the gift ...

"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, a 25-year-old Indiana woman, won a $500,000 lottery after her father traded the winning ticket in a family Christmas gift exchange. Initially, she thought she had won $50,000 but ...

Emily Hickox, 25, found out on Christmas Day, which is also her birthday, that she won $500,000 by playing the Michigan Lottery’s Detroit Lions instant game during a holiday gift swap, according to a ...

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.