Category Archives: Winners

Dorchester County Crossword Fan Wins $100,000 Scratch-Off Prize

An avid fan of Maryland Lottery crossword-themed scratch-offs won the fifth out of nine top-tier $100,000 prizes on the $10 $100,000 Crossword 9th Edition game. “I love the crosswords,” the winner, a resident of Dorchester County, said Dec. 9 when she claimed the prize at Lottery headquarters in Baltimore. She went on to say she [...]

The Week in Winners: Reisterstown Powerball Ticket Narrowly Misses Jackpot as Lottery Players Win $31.4M

Maryland Lottery scratch-off players in Manchester and Whiteford each won $100,000 in the past week, while a Powerball player in Reisterstown missed winning a jackpot that’s approaching $1 billion by one number. The Reisterstown Powerball player matched four of the first five numbers drawn plus the Powerball number, delivering a $50,000 prize in the Dec. [...]

Baltimore IT Professional Claims $50,000 Powerball Prize

It was at the urging of a sibling that a Baltimore man decided to try his luck playing Powerball. Previously, he didn’t play the numbers at all, but his sister insisted, so the information technology professional bought five quick pick tickets and won $50,000. He bought the tickets at the Harris Teeter grocery store at [...]

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

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

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 [...]