Author Archives: Melanie Losover

Upper Marlboro Man’s All-In Powerball Strategy Leads to $500,000 Holiday Score

When jackpots get in the range of a billion dollars, a player in Upper Marlboro is one of the many people whose attention is drawn. He made certain to get tickets with all the trimmings and ended up winning a $500,000 Powerball Double Play prize three days before Christmas. “I was looking at that jackpot [...]

The Week in Winners: Waldorf Man Wins on $50K Raffle as Queenstown Player Hits Multi-Match for $640,000

The final full week of 2025 brought monster prizes to Lottery players across Maryland including a Holiday Raffle Early Bird winner who claimed a $50,000 prize, clearing the way for the big $1 million drawing on Jan. 2, a $640,000 Multi-Match jackpot win on the Eastern Shore, and a $500,000 Powerball Double Play win in [...]

Powerball Double Play Delivers $500,000 in Upper Marlboro; Jackpot at $1.7 Billion

Big prize in Prince George’s County tops a day of big wins for Maryland Lottery players The Powerball jackpot continued on a historic roll Monday night. No one matched all six numbers for a jackpot win, so the next drawing, on Christmas Eve, will have an estimated annuity prize of $1.7 billion. The estimated cash option [...]

The Week in Winners: Four in Maryland Win $50,000 on Powerball as Jackpot Balloons to $1.6 Billion

As the Powerball jackpot swelled to an annuity value of $1.6 billion, four players in Maryland were off by one in the past week for $50,000 third-tier wins. The four big wins – one each in Bowie, Gwynn Oak, Hagerstown and Stevensville – were among 26 Maryland Lottery scores of $10,000 or more in the [...]