Author Archives: Una Ruth

Oxon Hill Woman Watches Pick 5 Drawing; Wins $50,000 Prize

April 15, 2026
An Oxon Hill mom was watching the Pick 5 drawing online and was shocked to see that she won the $50,000 top prize. "I hit the number!" she said April 14 when she claimed the prize at Lottery headquarters in Baltimore. The Prince George’s County player said she doesn’t prefer looking up the winning numbers [...]

The Week in Winners: $1.7 Million St. Mary’s County Multi-Match Jackpot Leads Big Week for Maryland Lottery

March 23, 2026
A $1.7 million Multi-Match jackpot ticket sold in Callaway was the Maryland Lottery’s biggest prize of the past week. The big winner in Maryland’s in-state jackpot game had not yet come forward to claim the prize as of March 23. Scratch-off games also delivered major wins last week, including a $1 million prize claimed by [...]

The Week in Winners: Abingdon Millionaire, Biggest Racetrax Score Ever Top Lottery Prizes of Week

January 20, 2026
A scratch-off in Abingdon delivered a $1 million prize while a player in Edgewater won $660,414 on Racetrax, the biggest prize in the history of the game. In addition, nine Bonus Match 5 tickets purchased at the same time at the same store in Clarksburg ran up winnings totaling $450,000 this past week. During the [...]

Laurel Man Starts 2026 With $100K Win on Red 5’s Doubler Scratch-Off

January 5, 2026
A Laurel man is already enjoying 2026 after becoming a $100,000 winner on the Maryland Lottery’s Red 5's Doubler scratch-off. "Let's start off the New Year right," he said with a smile Jan. 5 after claiming his prize at Lottery headquarters in Baltimore. After purchasing the ticket, he used a strategy of scratching off all the numbers, [...]

The Week in Winners: Pikesville Holiday Raffle Ticket Makes One of Three Lottery Millionaires in Seven Days

January 5, 2026
The Maryland Lottery Holiday Raffle final drawing turned a player in Pikesville into a millionaire, while a FAST PLAY ticket in Gaithersburg is also a million-dollar winner and a scratch-off worth $2 million was claimed by an Eastern Shore player, all in the past week. The Holiday Raffle also accounted for 10 of the next [...]

Five Big Prizes in Maryland as Powerball Jackpot is Won in Arkansas

December 26, 2025

From Sept. 7-Dec. 24, Powerball produced $11.3 million in Maryland prizes, $15.4 million in state contributions.

Havre de Grace Winner Collects $500,000 Scratch-off Prize

December 1, 2025

Calling a $500,000 Maryland Lottery win on a scratch-off a “game changer,” a Havre de Grace man and his wife expect to transition from being semi-retired to being fully retired. “She says we will still need something to do,” the winner said when he claimed the half-million-dollar windfall Nov. 26 at Lottery headquarters in Baltimore. […]

The Week in Winners: Scratch-Off Pays $500,000 in Havre de Grace; Powerball Rolls to $740 Million

December 1, 2025
A half-million-dollar scratch-off sold in Havre de Grace and a $111,971 FAST PLAY ticket in Bethesda topped the Maryland Lottery list of big winners for the week. As the Powerball jackpot inched toward three quarters of a billion dollars, two Maryland players won $50,000 third-tier prizes. Tonight’s Powerball jackpot (Dec. 1) has an estimated annuity [...]