A second look at her scratch-off ticket revealed a $100,000 surprise for a longtime Lottery player from Baltimore.
She enjoys playing Maryland Lottery games with her husband and is celebrating the big win after nearly overlooking the details of her $10 Bingo X10 9th Edition scratch-off ticket.
The Jamaican native and mother of four boys and grandmother to one girl considers playing the Lottery one of the many activities she enjoys sharing with her husband. The pair often purchase two scratch-off tickets during their trips to the store, one for each of them and were both on hand Nov. 6 to claim the prize at Lottery headquarters in Baltimore.
“I like to do the Bingo,” she said of her favorite scratch-off games.
Over the years, she has won prizes as large as $600 to $1,000, but nothing close to her latest $100,000 win.
On the day of her discovery, the couple stopped at the Food Mart Shell station at 9005 Belair Road in Nottingham while heading to her hair appointment. Her husband purchased two scratch-offs, keeping one for himself and handing her the other.
After her appointment, she remembered the ticket and decided to scratch it. At first, she thought it wasn’t a winner and handed it to her husband.
He decided to take another look and noticed one of the letters hadn’t been completely revealed. Her husband scratched off the remaining portion, and took her ticket to a nearby Lottery retailer to scan it and confirm the prize. The clerk printed a prize slip, confirming the much bigger surprise: $100,000.
He soon returned home with the news.
“I have something to tell you,” he said handing her the printout slip.
“I didn’t understand,” she recalled seeing the additional zeros thinking the form said $1,000.
It took only a few seconds for reality to set in, she was holding $100,000.
A special education paraprofessional, she plans to use her winnings to pay bills and put money toward purchasing a home, a goal she and her husband have been working toward for some time.
Food Mart Shell station receives a $1,000 bonus for selling a top-prize winning scratch-off ticket.
Bingo X10 launched in March and offered six $100,000 top prizes. There are leaving three top prizes remaining, along with numerous other prizes.
