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Glen Burnie Fisherman Reels in a Big Scratch-off Prize of $100,000

Fishing season may be fading faster than daylight on an autumn evening, but a Glen Burnie fisherman is in the holiday spirit after having reeled in a $100,000 prize on the new Silver Bell Bucks scratch-off. Like many loyal scratch-off players, he scratches off the numbers without revealing the associated prizes. Then he checks his numbers [...]

Baltimore Man Wins $30,000 Top-Prize on New Candy Cane Cash Game

A Lottery scratch-off enthusiast from Baltimore was offered suggestions for when purchasing tickets. He was told to look for recently released games. Heeding said advice, he bought three Candy Cane Cash scratch-off tickets, and one of them ended up being a $30,000 top-prize winner. While focusing on newly released tickets is a practice many players [...]

Montgomery County Man Wins $5 Million Splurging on $50 Scratch-Off Game

For a few minutes on Nov. 2, a retired federal employee believed he was experiencing a medical emergency, he told Lottery officials the next afternoon. Why tell it to the Lottery and not a doctor? Because it was a scratch-off ticket that caused his momentary distress. It wasn’t just any ticket, but a $5,000,000 Fortune [...]

The Week in Winners: Ten Pick 5 Tickets in Clarksburg Give $500K Prize; Two Scratch-Offs Pay $100K Each

Two brothers claimed $500,000 in prize money from 10 Pick 5 tickets for the midday drawing on Oct. 29 purchased in Clarksburg, while scratch-off players in Denton and Rockville collected $100,000 each, for the top Maryland Lottery wins of the past week. On all games, players won more than $29.8 million across Maryland in the [...]

November Lottery Fun with Ladies Football, Ravens & College Football

As the weather gets colder, November Lottery events start to heat up. There’s plenty of football fun with two Ravens home games, a Ravens event for female fans, two local college football games and a walk/race on the Bay Bridge. We start the month at M&T Bank Stadium on Monday, Nov. 3 for a Ravens [...]

The Week in Winners: Racetrax Horses with Long Odds Give Players Big Lottery Wins

Horses with long odds finished in the money in two Racetrax games, one each on Oct. 24 and Oct. 26, giving players in Baltimore, Fort Washington, Laurel, Suitland, Takoma Park, and Waldorf big paydays last week. On Oct. 24, the first four horses to finish were 12, 11, 10 and 1, resulting in four of [...]