gaithersburg – Maryland Lottery

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 [...]

Germantown Man Wins $62,576 on Racetrax Superfecta Box Bet

November 13, 2025

A man from Germantown received a Racetrax recommendation from a friend a few years back to play horses 9, 10, 11 and 12, which have the longest odds of finishing in the money and the highest potential payoffs. The advice was imparted by a person who claimed to have won a substantial sum betting that [...]

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 [...]

The Week in Winners: Scratch-Offs Make Millionaires in Annapolis and Owings Mills

October 20, 2025

Maryland Lottery scratch-offs made millionaires in Annapolis and Owings Mills and two Powerball players who missed the jackpot by a single number still ended up with tickets worth $150,000 and $50,000 in Accokeek and Morningside, respectively. On all games, players won more than $30.1 million across Maryland in the week Oct. 13-19, including 28 tickets [...]

Gaithersburg Woman Wins $311,795 FAST PLAY Progressive Jackpot Prize

September 25, 2025

Though she works for a company that paints houses, a Gaithersburg resident who visited lottery headquarters on Sept. 24, said she plays no role in the color paint that is to be used for each project. Thanks to a FAST PLAY 20X Cash progressive jackpot ticket she purchased a few weeks ago, this will likely [...]

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 [...]

Gaithersburg Store Sells First FAST PLAY 20X Cash Winner for $311,795

September 12, 2025

Someone’s weekend got off to a great start after buying one of the new FAST PLAY 20X Cash tickets Thursday evening, Sept. 11, in Gaithersburg and winning a $311,795 progressive jackpot. The $20 FAST PLAY ticket was released Monday, Sept. 8, and the winning ticket sold in Gaithersburg was the first progressive jackpot-winner purchased. It was [...]

30-Year Lottery Player From Gaithersburg Wins $77,000 on Scratch-Off

September 5, 2025

A Maryland Lottery player has finally scratched her way to a top prize after 30 years of playing. The Montgomery County woman stopped by Lottery headquarters Sept. 5 with her daughter to claim her prize and celebrate her win on the $10 Lucky 7s Multiplier scratch-off game. She bought the ticket at her go-to retailer, [...]

Former Maryland Resident visits Gaithersburg, Wins $50,000 on Powerball

September 5, 2025

A jackpot chaser who lives in New Mexico returned home to Maryland to visit his son and won a $50,000 Powerball prize. He matched four white balls and the red Powerball to take home the third-tier prize from the Aug. 27 drawing. The big winner said he’s grateful that he used the numbers his wife [...]

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 [...]

Gaithersburg Player Picks Up $50K Powerball Prize as Jackpot Grows to $950M

August 28, 2025

Powerball continues to roll along since there was no jackpot winner in last night’s drawing (Aug. 28). One player in Gaithersburg, however, was able to get in on the action and grabbed a $50,000 third-tier prize. The winning numbers for the Aug. 27 drawing are: 9, 12, 22, 41 and 61; the Powerball is 25. [...]

$50,000 Gaithersburg Powerball Win a Down Payment on Jackpot Dream

August 21, 2025

A Montgomery County man visited lottery headquarters on Aug. 20 to claim a Powerball prize, saying he’d be happy to “settle” for the $50,000 prize he won on in the drawing four days earlier. The “once-in-a-while” player bought his ticket when he noticed that the jackpot had climbed to over $600 million. “I’m happy with [...]

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 [...]

Coincidental Wins: Two Players Claim $30K Loteria Prizes at Same Time

August 4, 2025

Lottery headquarters saw an unlikely coincidence on Aug. 1 when two people who didn’t know each other, one from North Carolina and the other from Montgomery County, showed up to claim $30,000 top prizes on the same $3 game, Loteria. The game went on sale Dec. 28, 2023 and in the months since then, four […]

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 [...]

$50,000 Lottery Win Gives Eastern Shore Woman Retirement Relief

July 23, 2025

A $50,000 Pick 5 win in the July 18 midday drawing has done much to lessen the anxiety a Queen Anne’s County woman had been experiencing concerning her upcoming retirement. That welcome relief, however, didn’t come right away, the top-prize winner said July 22 after claiming her prize at Maryland Lottery headquarters in Baltimore. “I […]

The Week in Winners: Six Win $50,000 Maryland Lottery Prizes, Including Powerball Player in Elkridge

July 21, 2025

A third-tier Powerball win on a ticket sold in Elkridge was one of six $50,000 Maryland Lottery prizes won in the past week as the multi-state jackpot game inched toward a third of a billion dollars. For the Powerball drawing tonight (July 21), the estimated annuity jackpot is $308 million. The other $50,000 prizes in [...]

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: $1 Million Prize in Prince George’s County Highlights Big Week for Scratch-off Players

June 16, 2025

Aberdeen, Baltimore, Eastern Shore, Frederick tickets are among 28 prizes of $10,000 or more Scratch-off tickets delivered most of the Maryland Lottery’s largest prize payouts of the past week, led by a $1 million winning ticket sold in the Prince George’s County community of Morningside. A scratch-off worth $100,000 was sold in Baltimore City; a [...]