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$50K Scratch-Off Win Stuns Maryland Man Who Picked Ticket On A Whim $50K Scratch-Off Win Stuns Maryland Man Who Picked Ticket On A Whim
$50K Scratch-Off Win Stuns Maryland Man Who Picked Ticket On A Whim Sometimes, all it takes is a little beginner’s luck—just ask one Frederick County lottery player who walked into a Giant Eagle, picked a ticket at random, and walked out $50,000 richer. The self-employed local, who had never won big before, spotted a Cash to Go scratch-off at the Giant Eagle on West Patrick Street and decided to give it a shot.  That spur-of-the-moment decision turned out to be a game-changer. After scratching off the ticket right there in the store, he uncovered a piggybank symbol—the key to the game's $50,000 top prize.  Just to be sure, he scanned it to …

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Man Cashes $50K Lottery Ticket With Days To Spare In Maryland: ‘I Just Wanted To Hold On To It’ Man Cashes $50K Lottery Ticket With Days To Spare In Maryland: ‘I Just Wanted To Hold On To It’
Man Cashes $50K Lottery Ticket With Days To Spare In Maryland: ‘I Just Wanted To Hold On To It’ Talk about a last-minute play. A Prince George’s County truck driver held onto a $50,000 winning Pick 5 ticket for nearly six months—only cashing it in with less than a week left before it expired. The Clinton man, who snagged the big win in the Aug. 21 midday drawing last year, admitted he knew about the prize the very next day but decided to sit on it. “I just wanted to hold on to it,” he told Maryland Lottery officials. “But, I’ll tell you, I sure was excited about it.” The routine player picked up his tickets at 2 Go Convenience and Deli in Savage after work, played his usual numbers,…

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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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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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Lottery Player Wins 40 $50K Prizes Good For $2M On Scratcher Sold At Maryland Convenience Store Lottery Player Wins 40 $50K Prizes Good For $2M On Scratcher Sold At Maryland Convenience Store
Lottery Player Wins 40 $50K Prizes Good For $2M On Scratcher Sold At Maryland Convenience Store Maryland's newest millionaire did so in style after picking up a golden Mega Money instant ticket that earned her a modest $2 million. A stop at Dash In in the 15500 block of Upper Marlboro turned $30 into seven figures after a lucky lady from Anne Arundel County scratched away and realized she had won 40 $50,0000 prizes on the ticket. “It was a lot of $50,000 prizes and I just knew that I won $2,000,000,” the finance worker told Lottery officials. “I was shaken and crying.” The big winner started to scratch off her instant ticket during a break at work, but she she saw the writing on the …

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by Zak Failla