“Nurse Practitioner DOOM” stopped by a Lottery retailer to pick up Pick 4 and Pick 5 tickets for a friend. While there, he purchased a 30X Cash ticket for himself scratched his way to a $30,000 prize.
After realizing he’d won $30,000 on a Maryland Lottery scratch-off, a Baltimore man knew exactly what to do: Get his Doctor Doom costume and make an appointment to claim at Lottery headquarters in Baltimore.
A comic book enthusiast using the alias “Nurse Practitioner DOOM” to tell his tale claimed his winnings on the $30 game 30X Cash on Nov. 12.
He attended a comic event earlier in the year where he bought his Marvel supervillain costume, which he wore on Halloween and repurposed for maintaining anonymity when he claimed his prize.
“Nurse Practitioner DOOM” was visiting a friend who was in the hospital when the friend asked him to pick up his usual numbers. Ever the loyal friend, in contrast to his comic alter-ego, “Nurse Practitioner DOOM” stopped by McLellan Liquors at 6320 Sherwood Road in Baltimore and purchased the requested Pick 4 and Pick 5 tickets.
While there, he also purchased a single scratch-off for himself. It proved to not be a winner, so he bought another. When he got to the final line on that ticket, he hit his first match.
“I figured I’d win my $30 back,” he said. Sure enough, the first thing he revealed was $30, but the text seemed small, so he kept on scratching to reveal the additional zeroes.
“Get out of here!” he recalled thinking. “This is outrageous!”
Before even collecting his winnings, “Nurse Practitioner DOOM” contacted his friend, and gave him $1,000. Very appreciative, the friend initially told him it would be a loan.
“I told him, ‘I would never have gone in the liquor store if not for you,” the winner said.
The store receives a bonus of $300 for selling a top-prize winning ticket.
The 30X Cash game has been in stores since September and started with 320 top prizes, though this win reduces the number of unclaimed $30,000 paydays to 300. Also remaining are hundreds of thousands of other prizes ranging from $30 to $5,000.
