break the bank – Maryland Lottery

Final Unlock the Cash Live Game Delivers Prizes for Pair of Winners

November 18, 2025

Aarchi Patel and Garry Dixon participated in the final Unlock the Cash Live Game at Lottery headquarters, and both walked away with cash.

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 [...]

St. Mary’s County Woman ‘Breaks the Bank’ with $50,000 Lottery Win

November 12, 2025

A St. Mary’s County woman is celebrating a flooring win after claiming a $50,000 top prize on the $5 Break the Bank scratch-off. The regular player recently visited Lottery headquarters Nov. 10 to claim her prize and share her story. A Lottery enthusiast for more than 25 years, she said her biggest win before this [...]

Brooklyn Park, Joppatowne Lottery Winners Open Safes and Win Cash

November 3, 2025

Sallie Drake and Tania Shreve each won cash and scratch-offs when they played the Unlock the Cash Second-Chance Promotion Live Game at Lottery headquarters.

The Week in Winners: FAST PLAY Jackpot in Rockville, $100K Scratch-Off in Baltimore City are Week’s Top Prizes

October 14, 2025

For the second week in a row, a FAST PLAY progressive jackpot was the Maryland Lottery’s largest prize, as a Big Money Doubler ticket sold Oct. 12 in Rockville delivered more than $128,000 to a lucky player. And a Double Your Money scratch-off sold in Baltimore City paid a $100,000 top prize. Meanwhile, the Mega [...]

Lottery Player From Ocean City Returns to Brooklyn Park, Wins $50,000

October 10, 2025

A new Ocean City resident made the trip back to her old stomping grounds recently, stopped in at a Brooklyn Park convenience store and walked out with a $50,000 Maryland Lottery win. Her top prize win on the $5 Break The Bank scratch-off is the latest – and largest – in the player’s long history [...]

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 [...]

Parkville Man ‘Breaks the Bank’ for $50K Prize on Lottery Scratch-off

September 30, 2025

A Parkville man just broke the bank this week to become the second top-tier $50,000 winner on the Break the Bank scratch-off game. The retail worker was eating pizza and saw that a store across the street was selling scratch-offs, he said Sept. 29 when he claimed his prize at Lottery headquarters in Baltimore. A [...]

Towson, Owings Mills Residents ‘Unlock the Cash’ with Lottery Promotion

September 30, 2025

Eliezer Adari and Patrick Meers were the first two Unlock the Cash winners to participate in the Live Game. Patrick walked away with the $25,000 top prize!

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 [...]

Pasadena Man Wins a $50,000 on Break the Bank Scratch-Off – While at the Bank

September 9, 2025

An Anne Arundel County man went to, as 1930s gangster Willie Sutton famously said, “where the money is” last week in pursuit of a Lottery prize. The house painter scratched a Break the Bank scratch-off while waiting in line - at a bank. Unsurprisingly, the $50,000 top prize he uncovered left him a bit flustered [...]

Ravens Scratch-offs Return; New Unlock the Cash Promotion Launches

August 22, 2025

The start of football season is always exciting, and for the 17th year in a row, the Maryland Lottery is offering Ravens scratch-offs and the chance to win Ravens-themed experiential prizes. Two Ravens scratch-offs hit Lottery retailers today. The $2 Ravens X2 ticket has five top prizes of $20,000. The $10 Ravens X10 instant ticket [...]