Mom convinces daughter to buy random lottery ticket — and she wins big. ‘No way’
A Maryland woman won a huge prize after her mother convinced her to buy a lottery ticket.
The Prince George’s County woman plays the lottery once or twice a year, according to a Nov. 1 news release from the Maryland Lottery. But after following her mother’s advice, she purchased “a random ticket for a random game” at a gas station in Glenn Dale.
The ticket was for the Oct. 28 drawing in a game called Multi-Match. The woman’s mother took the ticket home, not knowing that it was a winner, the lottery said.
The woman’s mother scanned the ticket and when she got a “Go to Lottery” message, she decided to check the winning numbers online, lottery officials said. That’s when she realized her daughter was a winner.
“I looked at it and said, ‘No way,’” the mom told lottery officials.
Then she shared the news with her daughter: She just won $1.8 million. She was in disbelief.
“I didn’t think it was real. I wasn’t sure it was real until the next day,” the woman said.
The woman, who is a nurse, didn’t know the jackpot was over $1 million, lottery officials said.
The woman chose the cash option of $1.075 million.
Glenn Dale is about 15 miles northeast of Washington, D.C.
This story was originally published November 3, 2024 at 3:44 PM with the headline "Mom convinces daughter to buy random lottery ticket — and she wins big. ‘No way’."
