Lottery player was thrilled over win. But she wasn’t done scratching her ticket
This Washington, D.C., woman isn’t one to hastily buy her lottery tickets.
Instead, she does her homework — and now her research has paid off with a big prize, Maryland Lottery officials said.
The retired woman told lottery officials she scours the lottery’s website to find games that “still have a lot of big prizes.”
“I pick one and buy it whenever I get my tickets,” she said in the release.
This pointed her to Money Bags, which still had five top prizes available, lottery officials said.
“I’d get two of them every time I played and I did pretty well,” the woman told lottery officials. “I even won $100 a couple of times.”
She bought two tickets for $10 each at a Temple Hills convenience store Monday, May 5, according to lottery officials.
When she scratched her tickets in her car, the woman saw a $50,000 match, she told lottery officials.
Filled with excitement, she rushed home to show her family her winning ticket, lottery officials said.
They, too, were thrilled, “but even more so when they pointed out that she hadn’t finished scratching the ticket,” lottery officials said
Turns out, the woman won the game’s top prize of $250,000, lottery officials said.
The winner told lottery officials after she uses some of the money to pay off some bills and help family, she plans to tuck the rest away in savings.
Temple Hills is about a 50-mile drive southwest from Baltimore.
This story was originally published May 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM with the headline "Lottery player was thrilled over win. But she wasn’t done scratching her ticket."
