Lottery player scans ticket, thinks she gets error message. Turns out, she won jackpot
A Maryland lottery player “doesn’t follow any patterns or superstitions.”
Rather, she waits to buy a lottery ticket “when the moment feels right,” Maryland Lottery officials said in a Nov. 15 news release.
“Sometimes I like to try my luck,” the woman said in the release.
Recently, the Bel Air woman tried her luck and bought a FAST PLAY Wild Bonus X10 ticket at a Abingdon convenience store, lottery officials said.
When she scanned her ticket, she was baffled by the “Go to Lottery” message that popped up.
“What does that mean?” she thought, the woman told lottery officials.
Perhaps, it was an error message, the woman thought.
The woman looked to her daughter for answers, and the pair closely examined the $10 ticket, lottery officials said.
Upon checking the winning number against the ticket’s numbers, they soon realized “the first number in the game’s first row matched a winning number,” lottery officials said.
It was “no error message” after all; the woman won the game’s progressive jackpot of $287,056, according to lottery officials.
“There was a smile on my face,” the woman said.
The woman told lottery officials she plans to use her winnings to pay off bills and invest the rest.
Abingdon is about a 30-mile drive northeast from Baltimore.
This story was originally published November 15, 2024 at 5:05 PM with the headline "Lottery player scans ticket, thinks she gets error message. Turns out, she won jackpot."
