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The Week in Winners: Pair of Scratch-Offs Deliver $100,000 Prizes in Adelphi, Port Deposit

November 24, 2025
The Powerball jackpot is still rolling, with the big prize sitting at an estimated annuity value of $654 million, with an estimated cash value of $303.2 million for Monday night’s drawing. Maryland saw a $50,000 Powerball winner last week, but the state’s two biggest prizes came on a pair of scratch-offs worth $100,000 each that [...]

The Week in Winners: Five Mega Millions Players Win Five-Digit Prizes as Mega Millions Jackpot Roll Ends

November 17, 2025
While a player in Georgia won the $980 Million Mega Millions jackpot on Nov. 14, the game’s two drawings last week delivered five big prizes for players in Maryland: two wins of $30,000 each in Bryans Road and Towson, and three $20,000 prizes on tickets sold in District Heights, Elkridge and Temple Hills. Meanwhile, as [...]

The Week in Winners: $5 Million Scratch-Off in Germantown, $770K Multi-Match in Silver Spring Top Wins

November 10, 2025
A scratch-off worth $5 million sold in Germantown was the biggest Maryland Lottery win of the past week, edging out a $770,000 Multi-Match jackpot win in Silver Spring and a FAST PLAY score of $125,985 in Annapolis on the hot ticket leaderboard. On all games, players won nearly $34.4 million across Maryland in the week [...]

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

November 4, 2025
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

November 3, 2025
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 [...]

The Week in Winners: FAST PLAY Ticket Pays $147,550 in Bowie as Players Statewide Win $30.1 Million

October 6, 2025
A winning FAST PLAY Home Run Riches Walk-Off Winnings ticket worth $147,550 sold in Bowie led the league as the Lottery’s largest prize of the past week, followed by two scratch-off wins of $100,000 on tickets sold in Linthicum and the Allegany County community of Corriganville. Across Maryland, and across all games, the Lottery paid [...]

The Week in Winners: Players Win $100K in Lanham and Temple Hills, Topping Big Prize List

September 29, 2025
A Maryland Lottery player in Lanham picked up a sweet $100,000 win on the FAST PLAY WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY™ ticket over the weekend, and a Temple Hills player claimed $100,000 last week on a scratch-off, topping the Lottery’s big prizes of the week. Across Maryland, and across all games, the Lottery paid [...]

The Week in Winners: Powerball Millionaire Tops Lottery Leaderboard as Players Won $31.2 Million Last Week

September 15, 2025
The excitement of a massive Powerball jackpot had subsided by the beginning of last week after a $1.787 billion prize in the Sept. 6 drawing was shared by tickets sold in Missouri and Texas. But there is a chance for a substantial win in every drawing, as demonstrated by a Maryland Lottery player in Prince [...]

Retired Frederick Woman Wins $100,000 Playing $5,000,000 Fortune Scratch-Off

September 9, 2025
A Frederick County retiree is celebrating a $100,000 win on the $5,000,000 Fortune scratch-off, a $50 game. The winner, who has enjoyed playing Maryland Lottery games for the past 15 years, stopped by Lottery headquarters in Baltimore on Sept. 9 to claim her prize and share her story. While she’s played on and off for [...]

The Week in Winners: Maryland Powerball Wins Top Big Ticket List as Jackpot Rolls to $1.3 Billion

September 2, 2025
As the Powerball jackpot approached the stratospheric level of $1.3 billion for the drawing on Sept. 3, more Maryland Lottery players bought tickets, leading to eight of the 24 big wins across the state this past week coming on the multi-state jackpot game, including a $500,000 winner in Middle River and a $150,000 winning ticket [...]

The Week in Winners: Lottery Makes Millionaire in Baltimore; Tickets in Rockville, Upper Marlboro Pay $100K

August 18, 2025
A Maryland Lottery scratch-off ticket made a millionaire in Baltimore, and two other players in Rockville and Upper Marlboro each won $100,000, topping the big winners leaderboard for the past week. Meanwhile, a pair of Powerball players in Gaithersburg and Mechanicsville bought tickets that won $50,000 prizes in the Aug. 16 drawing. The Powerball jackpot [...]

The Week in Winners: Lottery Player in Baltimore a Millionaire; 22 Others Across State Win $10K or More

July 29, 2025
A Maryland Lottery scratch-off player in Baltimore is now a millionaire, and two other people claimed scratch-off prizes of $100,000 each after buying tickets in Baltimore and Silver Spring. Across Maryland, and across all games, the Lottery paid more than $31.1 million in prizes during the week of July 21-28 including 23 tickets worth $10,000 [...]

The Week in Winners: Baltimore Player Wins Bonus Match 5 Seven Times for $350,000 Lottery Score

July 14, 2025
A total of 15 tickets worth $50,000 each made the Maryland Lottery’s big win list last week, but one player in Baltimore bought seven of them for a Bonus Match 5 win totaling $350,000. A Pick 5 player in Capital Heights bought four 50-cent tickets and hit for a $100,000 payday. Across Maryland, and across [...]

The Week in Winners: Players in Ocean City, Silver Spring Splitting $1.8 Million Among Big Lottery Hits

July 7, 2025
Maryland Lottery players in Ocean City and Silver Spring will be splitting a $1.8 million Multi-Match jackpot after the June 30 drawing and another seven players scored prizes of $50,000 to $100,000 in the past week in Bowie, College Park, Colmar Manor, Jessup, Lexington Park, Nottingham and Silver Spring. Across Maryland, and across all games, [...]

The Week in Winners: Lottery Players in Elkton, Essex and Indian Head Win $1 to $5 Million

June 30, 2025
Three Maryland Lottery players became millionaires last week: a scratch-off player in Essex who won $5 million, a FAST PLAY winner who bought a ticket worth $2,041,396, and a second scratch-off player in Elkton who hit for $1 million. Across Maryland, and across all games, the Lottery paid nearly $35.8 million in prizes during the [...]

The Week in Winners: Cash4Life Makes a Millionaire in Lanham; Mega Millions, Powerball Deliver Solid Wins

June 23, 2025
Players in Capitol Heights, Glen Burnie, Hagerstown, Laurel, Severna Park score $50,000 or more A Maryland Lottery player in Lanham is holding a Cash4Life ticket worth $1,000 a week for life. Meanwhile, as the Powerball jackpot grew to $128 million a player in Riverdale won a $150,000 prize; and Mega Millions players in Catonsville and [...]