Author Archives: Melanie Losover

Glen Burnie Fisherman Reels in a Big Scratch-off Prize of $100,000

Fishing season may be fading faster than daylight on an autumn evening, but a Glen Burnie fisherman is in the holiday spirit after having reeled in a $100,000 prize on the new Silver Bell Bucks scratch-off. Like many loyal scratch-off players, he scratches off the numbers without revealing the associated prizes. Then he checks his numbers [...]

Baltimore Man Wins $30,000 Top-Prize on New Candy Cane Cash Game

A Lottery scratch-off enthusiast from Baltimore was offered suggestions for when purchasing tickets. He was told to look for recently released games. Heeding said advice, he bought three Candy Cane Cash scratch-off tickets, and one of them ended up being a $30,000 top-prize winner. While focusing on newly released tickets is a practice many players [...]

Montgomery County Man Wins $5 Million Splurging on $50 Scratch-Off Game

For a few minutes on Nov. 2, a retired federal employee believed he was experiencing a medical emergency, he told Lottery officials the next afternoon. Why tell it to the Lottery and not a doctor? Because it was a scratch-off ticket that caused his momentary distress. It wasn’t just any ticket, but a $5,000,000 Fortune [...]

The Week in Winners: Ten Pick 5 Tickets in Clarksburg Give $500K Prize; Two Scratch-Offs Pay $100K Each

Two brothers claimed $500,000 in prize money from 10 Pick 5 tickets for the midday drawing on Oct. 29 purchased in Clarksburg, while scratch-off players in Denton and Rockville collected $100,000 each, for the top Maryland Lottery wins of the past week. On all games, players won more than $29.8 million across Maryland in the [...]

November Lottery Fun with Ladies Football, Ravens & College Football

As the weather gets colder, November Lottery events start to heat up. There’s plenty of football fun with two Ravens home games, a Ravens event for female fans, two local college football games and a walk/race on the Bay Bridge. We start the month at M&T Bank Stadium on Monday, Nov. 3 for a Ravens [...]