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Baltimore City Racetrax Fan Boxes a Bet, Wins $30,946

Finds Lottery luck with Trifecta Box wager On the same day, two different people came to Maryland Lottery headquarters to claim the same Racetrax prize based on different wagers placed at different Lottery retailers. Our second lucky winner was a Baltimore City resident who showed up in good spirits to turn in her $30,946 winning […]

Scratching That Lottery Itch Makes Eastern Shore Player A Millionaire

Truck driver claims first of six top prizes on $20 Show Me $1,000,000! ticket A Maryland Lottery scratch-off enthusiast from the Eastern Shore is Maryland’s newest millionaire after buying a $20 Show Me $1,000,000! instant ticket at a shop in the crossroads community of Mardela Springs in Wicomico County. “He likes to scratch. I like […]

Boonsboro Man Lands $44,000 Mega Millions Prize

Washington County player quadruples prize with Megaplier feature Adding the Megaplier option to his Mega Millions ticket and playing the same four numbers on three lines of his $9 ticket gave a Boonsboro man a $44,000 prize in the May 17 drawing. The Washington County resident visited his local Lottery retailer, Martin’s #6104 located at […]

Intuition, Address Numbers Lead to $25,000 Pick 5 Win

Mechanicsville woman celebrating brush with Lottery luck A series of lucky numbers and a lucky feeling were all it took to win big, according to a retired healthcare worker from St. Mary’s County. She followed her lucky feelings all the way to a $25,000 prize playing the Lottery’s Pick 5 game. Since the game launched […]

Trio of Players Capture $25,000 Pick 5 Prizes

Winners hail from Gaithersburg, Gambrills, Lexington Park Three lucky Pick 5 players collected $25,000 prizes each this week in the days leading up to Memorial Day weekend. The winners are a 57-year-old woman from Lexington Park, a 66-year-old woman from Gaithersburg and a 69-year-old man from Gambrills. Their big wins came in the May 11, […]

Baltimore Retiree’s Free Pick 5 Ticket Yields $25,000 Top Prize

Playing terminal game produces the free winning ticket The Try Pick 5 promotion, which ends June 5, turned a free Pick 5 ticket into $25,000 for a Baltimore woman. “I didn’t even think about it when the ticket printed out,” said the anonymous player, who selected the nickname “Victorious” to tell her winning story. “It […]

Baltimore Man Starts Weekend with $100,000 Scratch-off Win

Claims top prize on $100,000 Extreme Cash game on May 23 Last weekend kicked off just right for a 39-year-old Baltimore resident when he scratched off a top-prize winning $100,000 Extreme Cash instant ticket on Friday. The avid Lottery player primarily chooses scratch-offs, and said this was his biggest win ever. “I scratched the ticket […]

The Week in Winners: Scratch-offs, Pick 5, Mega Millions Deliver Big Prizes Across Maryland

Players across Maryland won more than $32.5 million during week ending May 22 Maryland Lottery players in Crisfield and Upper Marlboro landed $100,000 prizes last week, while a lucky Lexington Park retailer sold two $50,000-winning Pick 5 tickets, and a Mega Millions player in Hagerstown bought a ticket for the May 17 drawing worth $44,000 [...]

$100,000-Winning Powerball Ticket Sold in Upper Marlboro

Player bought lucky ticket for Saturday’s drawing Congratulations to our $100,000 Powerball winner! Someone bought a third-tier winning ticket with the Power Play multiplier for the Saturday, May 21 drawing, Although no one hit the jackpot, there were 14,288 winning tickets sold in our state for the drawing. The Maryland Lottery is looking for the […]

Germantown Trucker Hauls Away $25,000 Pick 5 Prize

Longtime player enjoys first-ever big win “I’ve been driving trucks for 50 years, and buying Lottery tickets for almost as long,” a 70-year-old Montgomery County man explained when he visited Lottery headquarters on Thursday. His prize, courtesy of a free Pick 5 ticket that accompanied a recent daily game purchase, is the biggest cash win […]

Boredom Leads Fort Washington Woman to a $25,000 Keno Win

Claims prize on a 9-spot Super Bonus wager “I was just bored,” a lucky Fort Washington woman said when asked how she came across a $25,000 winning Keno ticket. The 36-year-old plays every now and then, she said. On this particular day, boredom struck just in time to get her up and to a nearby […]