Author Archives: Melanie Losover

Serene Gaithersburg Woman Claims $100,000 Scratch & Match Top Prize

June 23, 2026
A Montgomery County woman kept her calm when entering the Maryland Lottery headquarters this week, despite winning a $100,000 top prize on the $10 Scratch & Match scratch-off game. At her side, however, was a very excited daughter. The two women visited the Lottery on June 22, and the winner, a grandmother from Gaithersburg, was [...]

The Week in Winners: Scratch-Off Pays $500,000 in Silver Spring as Racetrax Players Have Big Week

June 22, 2026
A $500,000 scratch-off prize on a ticket sold in Silver Spring was the Maryland Lottery’s biggest win last week. Meanwhile, the computer-animated horse racing simulation game Racetrax delivered a slew of big wins, including a $305,776.50 prize in Severn — one of 17 Racetrax tickets that paid prizes of $10,500 or more last week. Racetrax [...]

Winning Streak Ticket Delivers $50,000 for Hagerstown Scratch-Off Fan

June 17, 2026
About three years ago, a longtime Lottery player from Hagerstown started noticing people jumping up and down after checking their scratch-off tickets, so he decided to start playing scratch-offs too. His first memorable win — $3,000 — came a few months later. Then, on June 16 he was at Lottery headquarters in Baltimore because he [...]

Silver Spring Woman Surprised by Half a Million Win on Scratch-Off

June 17, 2026
A Montgomery County player reported her biggest ever Lottery win was $500. The purchase that brought her to Lottery headquarters on June broke her personal record many times over – a thousand times over, in fact. The game she played: Gifts of Green. The prize that left her speechless: $500,000. Coincidentally, not only did both [...]

The Week in Winners: Scratch-Offs and FAST PLAY Games Deliver the Week’s Biggest Prizes

June 15, 2026
A pair of $100,000 prizes were the Maryland Lottery’s top wins last week, with a Baltimore scratch-off player and a Cumberland FAST PLAY player each claiming six-figure prizes. Other notable wins included a $57,777 Lucky 7s Tripler scratch-off prize in Baltimore and eight $50,000 prizes won on a variety of tickets sold in Bethesda, Bowie [...]

The Week in Winners: $1 Million Scratch-Off in Hyattsville Tops Largest Lottery Prizes of the Week

June 8, 2026
A Maryland Lottery scratch-off sold in Hyattsville delivered a $1 million prize last week, while another ticket in Leonardtown produced a $100,000 win. In addition, one lucky Pick 5 player purchased three $50,000 winning tickets in Charles County. During the week of June 1-7, a total of 23 tickets statewide delivered prizes of $10,000 or [...]

The Week in Winners: Racetrax Superfecta in Rockville Delivers $106,220 Win

June 1, 2026
The Maryland Lottery’s biggest win of the past week came courtesy of Racetrax and a particularly lucky play that led to a prize of more than $106,000. In Racetrax, players select from among a field of horses numbered 1 to 12, with new races starting every few minutes and displayed on video monitors at Lottery [...]

Delaware Couple Finds $176,777 FAST PLAY Fortune in Maryland

May 28, 2026
They’re twice-a-week Lottery players, a husband and wife team revealed May 26 when visiting headquarters to claim a $176,777 progressive jackpot prize delivered by a FAST PLAY Platinum Payout ticket. The Delaware pair still appeared in shock, and not just because of the substantial prize they’d won. “We really thought it would have been Mega [...]