There’s never a bad time to win $100,000, but a Maryland Lottery player who lives in Delaware says the timing of her recent scratch-off windfall was ideal.
She became the first person to claim a $100,000 top prize on the $10 Kings & Queens game when she visited Lottery headquarters in Baltimore on Nov. 17.
“It comes at a perfect time,” she said, adding that the prize will be helpful in light of recent family circumstances.
Originally from Maryland, she crosses the border into her former home state to buy Lottery tickets, primarily scratch-offs. She said she’s won “$50 here and $50 there,” and once won a $10,000 prize at a casino. But the $100,000 prize is by far the biggest she’s ever won.
She bought the winning ticket in the western Cecil County community of Port Deposit at the Lion Xpress at 1252 Jacob Tome Highway. The store receives a bonus of $1,000 for selling the top-tier winning scratch-off.
Available in stores since Sept. 19, Kings & Queens has six of its original seven top prizes remaining unclaimed as of Nov. 18, along with hundreds of thousands of other prizes ranging from $10 to $3,000.
