On her way home from a visit with family in early December, a Baltimore woman stopped at a store for a snack. It’s the only scenario that leads to her buying Lottery tickets, and this time was no exception, she said. The main difference: this snack stop with a side of Keno gave her a $40,016 Lottery feast that will have her breathing much easier.
“I really only think about playing when I see a Lottery machine in a store I’m in,” the waitress said Jan. 2 when she claimed the prize at Lottery headquarters in Baltimore. “And the only places I seem to notice them are convenience stores.”
It was the Xpress Mart at 200 Reisterstown Road in Pikesville that served as the backdrop for her big win on a ticket purchased Dec. 11.
The city resident bought a ticket that covered four games, adding the Super Bonus prize multiplier for each of them. She picked her own numbers for the 7-spot ticket, ones that she picked with no particular rhyme or reason. It wasn’t until a week or so later, though, that she found herself in another Lottery retailer where she was able to check whether her ticket had delivered any Keno luck.
“My eyes got real big! It felt like my eyebrows moved six inched up my forehead!” she said.
As you can probably decipher, those numbers had done good work for her. Not only had the prize multiplier augmented her win, but so too did a randomly-awarded Doubler message on her ticket.
That snack stop gave her $40,016 – minus the cost of the candy bar, of course.
“This really came at a good time for me, stress-wise,” the winner said. “I have a big purchase coming up soon and this lowers the anxiety I was feeling.”
The promotion that doubled the prize on random Keno tickets concluded at the end of December. The owners of the Pikesville Xpress Mart received a $400.16 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
