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Orioles Grand Slam Lands Maryland Man $6K Lottery Windfall Orioles Grand Slam Lands Maryland Man $6K Lottery Windfall
Orioles Grand Slam Lands Maryland Man $6K Lottery Windfall Jackson Holliday's first career grand slam this week was extra special for Glen Burnie resident Timothy Jeffries. Jeffries is the happy winner of $6,000 after the rookie - only recently called back up to the Big Leagues - as part of Maryland Lottery's FAST PLAY Home Run Riches Bases Loaded second-chance promotion. He is the sixth to cash in on an Orioles grand slam. In his return to MLB after being sent down to AAA earlier this season, Jackson mashed an 0-2 hanging breaking ball that Toronto's Yerry Rodriguez left over the plate into the upper deck in right field. It marked his first care…

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Winning $540K 'Multi-Match' Jackpot-Winning Ticket Sold At Maryland Gas Station Winning $540K 'Multi-Match' Jackpot-Winning Ticket Sold At Maryland Gas Station
Winning $540K 'Multi-Match' Jackpot-Winning Ticket Sold At Maryland Gas Station Check your tickets! Thursday was a good day for a Maryland Lottery player who won big playing a Multi-Match ticket that was sold at an area gas station. The big winner for the Thursday, Aug. 1 drawing came in Carroll County, where a player matched all six numbers on a ticket sold at an Eldersburg gas station on Liberty Road that was good for a $540,000 jackpot. Winning numbers for Thursday's drawing were: 15-22-25-26-34-35.  The winner will now have the option of 25 equal installments or an estimated $290,000 cash option when the prize is claimed. It was the seventh Multi-…

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Maryland Man Nearly Misplaced Lottery Ticket Worth More Than $1M Maryland Man Nearly Misplaced Lottery Ticket Worth More Than $1M
Maryland Man Nearly Misplaced Lottery Ticket Worth More Than $1M A newly minted millionaire in Maryland gave himself and his wife a scare after temporarily misplacing a winning Lottery ticket worth seven figures. A Baltimore County man who called an audible to appease his wife is feeling lucky after finally claiming a $1,045,588 FAST PLAY Extreme Green progressive jackpot prize after swapping out a $30 ticket in exchange a $20 ticket that was sold at Squires Restaurant on Holabird Avenue in Dundalk. “At first when I got it, I went crazy,” the winner, going by the monicker “Extreme Green Dream," told Lottery officials, unable to hide his excitement from h…

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West Virginia Woman Returns Home To Claim $50,000 Maryland Lottery Prize West Virginia Woman Returns Home To Claim $50,000 Maryland Lottery Prize
West Virginia Woman Returns Home To Claim $50,000 Maryland Lottery Prize Happy early birthday. A Maryland native living in West Virginia is feeling lucky after crossing the state line to claim a five-figure Lottery prize after years of playing. Annette Smith, who is known to make her way back to Maryland to play her favorite games, finally got her big win on a winning $50,000 Pick 5 ticket sold at Wawa on Patrick Street in Frederick. Google Maps street view Last week, Smith says she was heading to work and decided to make a quick stop at the Wawa to grab a coffee, at which point she thought to try her luck picking up a few Lottery tickets "using variations of…

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Second Winning $50K Lottery Ticket Sold At Same Maryland Gas Station Weeks Apart Second Winning $50K Lottery Ticket Sold At Same Maryland Gas Station Weeks Apart
Second Winning $50K Lottery Ticket Sold At Same Maryland Gas Station Weeks Apart The Shell station on Queens Chapel Road in Hyattsville is the place to go if you want to win big playing a Maryland Lottery game. A housekeeper from Prince George's County is the latest to claim a $50,000 scratch-off prize on a ticket sold at the same station where a Bonus Match 5 jackpot worth the same amount was sold last month. This time, it was a $10 Jumbo Cash scratcher sold at the Shell station that landed a lucky Lottery player an unexpected windfall. According to the winner, after scratching, she saw that she had matched the number 34 to score a second-tier prize in the g…

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Winning $50K 'Powerball' Ticket Sold At Maryland 7-Eleven Winning $50K 'Powerball' Ticket Sold At Maryland 7-Eleven
Winning $50K 'Powerball' Ticket Sold At Maryland 7-Eleven One lucky Lottery player has a $50,000 hole burning in their pocket after winning a third-tier prize on Wednesday's Powerball drawing. Officials say that the five-figure winner was sold at 7-Eleven on Conowingo Road in Bel Air, the biggest win out of nearly 7,000 others who can claim prizes ranging between $4 and $100.  The winning numbers for the drawing on Wednesday, July 18 were 24-27-32-47-66 with a Powerball of 26. It marks the 36th third-tier winner sold in Maryland so far in 2024. The winner will now have 182 days to claim their prize. "Lottery officials encourage all wi…

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Winning $100K Scratch-Off Ticket Sold At Maryland Royal Farms Winning $100K Scratch-Off Ticket Sold At Maryland Royal Farms
Winning $100K Scratch-Off Ticket Sold At Maryland Royal Farms A Maryland man knew he won on a Lottery scratcher, but he didn't realize he was in for a six-figure windfall. The random purchase of a Bingo X10 scratcher landed a Cecil County man - who chose to remain anonymous - a $100,000 jackpot, though he didn't realize it right away. According to officials, during a trip to Royal Farms on Jacob Tome Memorial Highway in Port Deposit, the scratch-off ticket caught his eye, and after picking it up on a whim, scanned it at the store, when he was instructed to head to Lottery Headquarters to claim his prize. He said that he knew it would be a "substantia…

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Winning $100K Scratcher Sold At Maryland Grocery Store Winning $100K Scratcher Sold At Maryland Grocery Store
Winning $100K Scratcher Sold At Maryland Grocery Store A Montgomery County man is one step closer to his dream of buying a house after winning a six-figure prize on a scratch-off Lottery ticket sold at an area Safeway. The $100,000 win left the lucky lotto player stunned outside of Safeway on New Hampshire Avenue in Silver Spring after he scratched off a $10 50X The Cash ticket. 'It was very surprising," the occasional Lottery player - whose previously had only won approximately $500 - mused. "When I go shopping, sometimes I buy a ticket."  "I was stunned."  According to the winner, he has been working toward purchasing a home,…

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Grocery Store Trip Lands Maryland Mom $50K Powerball Prize Grocery Store Trip Lands Maryland Mom $50K Powerball Prize
Grocery Store Trip Lands Maryland Mom $50K Powerball Prize An extra $4 landed a Maryland mother a $50,000 cash windfall playing Powerball during a trip to an area grocery store. Late last month, a Cecil County woman turned a trip to Klein's ShopRite on Riverside Parkway in Belcamp into a life-altering event when she picked up some lucky Lottery tickets, officials say. The woman said that she had an extra few dollars after finishing her shopping, so she picked up a Mega Millions and Powerball ticket to test her luck, though she failed to check her numbers until recently. She mused that she was in her parked car, about to head out, when she heeded h…

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Maryland Man With Golden Ticket Claims $500K 'Multi-Match' Jackpot Maryland Man With Golden Ticket Claims $500K 'Multi-Match' Jackpot
Maryland Man With Golden Ticket Claims $500K 'Multi-Match' Jackpot Logic helped a Maryland man claim a $500,000 prize playing the Multi-Match rolling jackpot game. A Baltimore man became the fourth in Maryland to hit the game's jackpot this year after methodically plotting out his play en route to the big win.  The winning ticket was sold at Royal Farms on Cromwell Park Drive in Glen Burnie. Google Maps street view According to Lottery officials, Multi-Match has a starting jackpot that grows each time no winner matches all six of the drawn numbers. Unlike the multi-state games, Multi-Match tickets are sold only in Maryland, so the prizes …

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Clerk's Mistake Lands Maryland Man $10K, $200K 'Pick 5' Prizes Clerk's Mistake Lands Maryland Man $10K, $200K 'Pick 5' Prizes
Clerk's Mistake Lands Maryland Man $10K, $200K 'Pick 5' Prizes What started as a mistake nearly a year ago landed an Anne Arundel County man a $200,000 prize playing a Maryland Lottery game. Severna Park native John Ambrose can thank an incompetent clerk for his six-figure win, as well as a $10,000 prize a year ago, after his numbers accidentally got mixed up playing Pick 5.  The 67-year-old's story began in 2022, when he started playing his game of choice, and decided he wanted four of his five digit number to represent 7s, with a different number in the middle. One night, while watching TV, Ambrose saw the number "77377" and sure enough, he had…

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Winning $50K 'Match 5' Ticket Sold At Maryland Liquor Store Winning $50K 'Match 5' Ticket Sold At Maryland Liquor Store
Winning $50K 'Match 5' Ticket Sold At Maryland Liquor Store Check your tickets! A lucky Lottery player won a five-figure prize after hitting big on a "Bonus Match 5" ticket that was sold at a popular liquor store in Anne Arundel County. The winning numbers for the drawing on Tuesday, June 11 were 07-09-13-15-23 with a 'Bonus Ball' of 22. It was sold at Southgate Liquors at 314 Hospital Drive in Glen Burnie and remained unclaimed a day later. The liquor store will also receive a $500 bonus from the Lottery for selling the top-prize winning ticket. "Lottery officials urge the winner to sign the back of the ticket and put it in a safe plac…

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