She sees scratch-off tickets as a fun pastime, a Bel Air woman told lottery officials Aug. 14. She buys one or two when at the store and scratches them whenever life allows her a little free time. Those moments, which are usually quiet, became anything but earlier in the week when her favorite pastime produced a $50,000 win on the MONOPOLY™ X50 game.
“It took me a while to be convinced that it was real,” the registered nurse acknowledged. It seems that she’d once experienced the disappointment of believing herself to have won a big prize only to realize that she had misunderstood the game’s rules.
“I was sure that it had happened again. That I’d gotten it wrong somehow.”
The $10 MONOPOLY™ X50 ticket – a game which debuted in January – is her current favorite, even before this big win.
“I always pick it if the store has it. MONOPOLY™ tickets have been pretty lucky for me,” she said. Her second-tier win is the game’s seventh to be claimed, leaving three in circulation. Also available for MONOPOLY™ X50 players are three of the ticket’s $100,000 top-prizes.
The Harford County woman purchased her $50,000 winner from Margate Marathon at 1601 York Road in Lutherville.
The winner plans to pay-off bills and treat herself to something special to celebrate her good fortune, though she hadn’t decided what that will be as of claiming the prize.
“This whole thing, from realizing that the $50,000 was real, to pondering what I will do with the money, to this claiming process here in Baltimore has been so exciting. Every step of the way,” she said.
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