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Ellicott City Woman Ramps up the Fun with $30,000 SKEE-BALL® Win

Claims top prize on $3 scratch-off        “I refused to believe it,” a Howard County woman told Lottery officials when asked how she reacted after uncovering a $30,000 scratch-off prize. The top-prize win, which is the fourth of eight that the popular SKEE-BALL® instant ticket has offered since its debut in March, turned her life […]

The Week in Winners: $1 Million Scratch-off Among 52 Big Lottery Prizes in the Past Week

Players across state won more than $32 million during seven days ending Aug. 28 A Maryland Lottery player in Silver Spring is a millionaire, and another eight players in Bel Air, Clear Spring, District Heights (two), Landover, Middle River, Upper Marlboro and Westminster won prizes of $100,000 in the past week. On top of that, [...]

$1 Million FAST PLAY Win Makes Player’s Heart Race

Lottery luck finds Air Force veteran in St. Mary’s County      A Southern Maryland man became the state’s newest Lottery millionaire this month, finding his fortune fast playing the $20 FAST PLAY MONOPOLY™ Properties game. The 30-year U.S. Air Force veteran plays several different games fairly often, he told Lottery officials, but he enjoys FAST […]

Bingo X10 Scratch-off Adds $100,000 to College Fund

Grandma’s advice leads to top-prize win     An 18-year-old university student remembered a conversation he’d had with his grandmother when he stopped at a convenience store in District Heights for a snack. They had spoken about her favorite hobby – playing scratch-offs – and her favorite game – Bingo X10. Happily, Royal Farms #269 is […]

8-Spot Keno Bet Makes Silver Spring Man $60,000 Richer

Lucky player added Super Bonus multiplier feature to June 16 ticket An early-summer Keno bet put a Montgomery County man on the road to riches, leading him to Lottery headquarters in Baltimore on Aug. 26 to claim a $60,000 prize. The anonymous winner added the Super Bonus feature to his 8-spot wager on numbers 1, […]

Cumberland Man In Disbelief After $50,000 Pick 5 Win

After checking multiple times, he was finally convinced of his big prize A Maryland Lottery player from Cumberland initially refused to believe that his Pick 5 ticket was a big winner. But no matter how hard he tried to deny it, he won the game’s largest possible prize — $50,000. “First I tried to check […]

Laurel Lottery Player Scores $36,490 Win Playing Racetrax

Superfecta quick-pick ticket does the trick A Lottery player from Laurel who enjoys a variety of games and switching up his approach picked up a $36,490 win on the computer-animated simulated horseracing game Racetrax. While he has a set of numbers he sometimes uses to play Racetrax, when he placed his bet on Aug. 23, […]

‘Family’ Numbers Add Up to $50,000 Pick 5 win

Montgomery County man thrilled by lucky score He plays two or three times a week “and always the same numbers,” said the Silver Spring resident visiting Lottery headquarters on Wednesday. Those numbers – a combination of his kids’ birthdays – proved very lucky in the Aug. 22 midday Pick 5 drawing, coming out just as […]

FAST PLAY Win Provides Relief for Essex Man

Claims $50,000 second-tier Towering 10s prize   He’s definitely a scratch-off man, a Baltimore County medical supplies salesman insisted to Lottery officials after claiming $50,000 worth of FAST PLAY luck he recently encountered. Noting that his big score did not come by way of a scratch-off, the Essex man said he changed his game because […]