Category Archives: Scratch-Offs

Lottery Hobby Yields Second Six-Digit Payday for Baltimore Woman

Winner claims $150,000 top prize after previously hitting for $100,000 in August 2013 Woodworking, stamp collecting, bird watching and quilting are all worthy hobbies, but a Baltimore woman’s leisure activity actually puts cash in her bank account. Playing Maryland Lottery scratch-offs has twice resulted in winning six-digit prizes. Most recently, on Nov. 12, she collected […]

The Week in Winners: Salisbury $100K Prize Tops List as Nine $50K Tickets Also Won this Past Week

Lottery prizes last week totaled nearly $27.9 million, with 32 tickets worth $10,000 or more Winter came early for a player in Salisbury who claimed a $100,000 Snowflake Tripler scratch-off top prize. Another nine tickets worth $50,000 each were sold in Church Hill, Easton, Germantown, Glen Burnie, Mount Rainier, Odenton (two), New Market and Westminster [...]

Fourth Holiday Scratch-off Brings Salisbury Woman a $100,000 Prize

Eastern Shore resident wins on the final line of last instant ticket she purchased A blizzard of winnings came this week to a Salisbury woman, who discovered the first $100,000 top prize on the new Snowflake Tripler scratch-off. The big winner purchased four Snowflake Tripler instant tickets at Shore Stop in Salisbury and took them home. […]

Ravens Fan Wins First GAME OF THRONES™ Scratch-off’s Top Prize

Son picked out instant ticket, straying from winner’s go-to football scratch-off selection A serious Baltimore Ravens fan and casual Maryland Lottery player from the Eastern Shore typically buys scratch-offs adorned with the logo of her favorite NFL team. It was a GAME OF THRONES™ * instant ticket, however, that won her a $50,000 top prize. […]

The Week in Winners: Multi-Match Millionaire, $150,000 Powerball Win Lead Top Prize List

Lottery prizes last week totaled more than $28.9 million, with 24 tickets worth $10,000 or more Rolling jackpot games were the source of the biggest Maryland Lottery wins in the past week, making a Multi-Match player in Glenn Dale a millionaire and giving a $150,000 prize to a Powerball player in Waldorf. Across the state, [...]

The Week in Winners: Scratch-off Players in Annapolis, Gaithersburg, Lanham, Oxon Hill Win Big

Lottery prizes last week totaled more than $30.6 million, with 27 tickets worth $10,000 or more Maryland Lottery scratch-off players in Annapolis, Gaithersburg, Lanham and Oxon Hill all claimed prizes ranging from $100,000 to $250,000 in the past week — the Lottery’s four biggest wins of the past seven days. Across the state, the Lottery [...]

Young Annapolis Man Begins Adulthood with $250,000 Lottery ‘Jumpstart’

Describes top-prize scratch-off win as a ‘life-changing amount’ A casual but consistent Maryland Lottery player from Annapolis in his mid-20s got a big financial boost by winning a $250,000 top prize on the $10 $250,000 Cash Winfall scratch-off. “This is a life-changing amount,” he said this week after claiming his prize at Lottery headquarters in […]

Retired Truck Driver Hits the Road to Claim $100,000 Scratch-off Prize

Gaithersburg man wins Gold Rush 7s Multiplier game’s top prize He has slowed down his Lottery play now that he’s no longer on the road every day, a recently retired Montgomery County man told Lottery officials. When working, he used to buy an instant ticket whenever he fueled up the truck. The Gaithersburg resident reports […]

The Week in Winners: Mega Millions Millionaire Leads Prize List as Jackpots Continue to Grow

Lottery prizes last week totaled nearly $27.7 million, with 31 tickets worth $10,000 or more As the jackpots for the national games Mega Millions and Powerball continued rolling, seven players in Maryland won prizes ranging from $10,000 to $1 million in those games last week. The largest of the wins in the jackpot games was [...]

October Brings Six Holiday Scratch-offs to Stores

Second-chance promotion returns with 62 prizes; two chances to win $100,000 The Maryland Lottery kicks off the holiday season today with six new scratch-offs and a Holiday Second-Chance Promotion that includes three holiday-themed FAST PLAY games arriving in November. Visit your Lottery retailer this week to try your luck with the six fun holiday-themed scratch-offs: […]

Good Luck Charm Delivers $50,000 Win

Money Rush scratch-off stuns Baltimore delivery driver A Baltimore woman explained to Lottery officials that her mother is not just the luckiest person she has ever met, but the luckiest she’s ever heard of. Games, contests or raffles, she’s won them all – and now she can add the Lottery to that list. A $50,000 […]

Retired Federal Employee Pleasantly Surprised by $200,000 Scratch-Off Win

Waldorf man claims Ravens X10 top prize A Waldorf man set out to buy his regular Powerball and scratch-off tickets expecting the same results as always. This time, though, things turned out differently as he walked away with a $200,000 Ravens X10 top-prize winner. When asked what drew him to this particular ticket, the federal […]