Author Archives: Una Ruth

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 [...]