Three more raffle drawings still to come with $1 million prize awarded on Jan. 2
The result of the first Maryland Lottery Holiday Raffle Early Bird Drawing is in: The winner of the first $50,000 prize is Ticket Number 037656.
The ticket with that number was sold at the 7-Eleven store at 700 Gaither Road in Rockville, and was randomly selected from 85,032 numbers that had been sold in time for today’s drawing. The winner has 182 days from today to claim the $50,000 prize, and that ticket remains eligible for the Holiday Raffle’s final drawing on Jan. 2.
The Holiday Raffle launched on Nov. 3 with a total of 325,000 tickets available. Raffle tickets will be available until they are all sold, or through Jan. 1, 2026, whichever comes first. In each drawing, the winning numbers are selected from the range of tickets that have been sold.
Three more Holiday Raffle drawings remain. Two more $50,000 Early Bird prizes will be awarded on Dec. 8 and Dec. 22. And then the final drawing on Jan. 2 will award one top prize of $1 million; 10 second-tier prizes of $100,000; and 10,000 prizes ranging from $50 to $500.
Tickets are $20 and are available at any Maryland Lottery retailer. There are no numbers to choose. Each ticket will be sequentially numbered in the order it was sold, with the number printed on the ticket.
Today’s winning Early Bird ticket and the winner in the Dec. 8 drawing are not eligible to win additional Early Bird prizes. But every ticket sold for the raffle — including the three Early Bird winners — will be eligible to win any of the prizes in the final drawing on Jan. 2.
