March 2, 2026
A Baltimore man is glad he paid the extra $1 for the Double Play option on his Powerball ticket because that’s how he ended up winning $50,000. The counselor checked his Powerball tickets after the first drawing on Feb. 25 and saw he had no matched numbers. But the Double Play option gave him a [...]
March 2, 2026
A scratch-off sold in Severn made a Maryland Lottery player a millionaire and another sold in Parkville turned out to be worth $100,000, topping this week’s list of big winners. Statewide, the Lottery paid more than $31.8 million in prizes from Feb. 23-March 1, including 36 tickets that were worth $10,000 or more. Winners are [...]
February 26, 2026
Another matching number would have made for a massive firehouse celebration in Hagerstown, but, as one of the winners said, a $50,000 third-tier Powerball prize was “better than nothing at all!” Back in December when the Powerball jackpot was in the $1 billion range, the number of firefighters at the Hagerstown Regional Airport Station 35 [...]
February 23, 2026
Maryland Lottery scratch-off players in Baltimore and Hagerstown became millionaires last week, while two FAST PLAY fans, one each in Clarksburg and District Heights, won six-digit prizes. Statewide the Lottery paid more than $32.6 million in prizes from Feb. 16-22, including 29 tickets that were worth $10,000 or more. Winners are encouraged to sign the [...]
February 23, 2026
When the multi-state games Mega Millions and Powerball have jackpots that are starting to get big, a Prince George’s County woman takes notice. Such was the case after the Valentine's Day weekend when the estimated Powerball jackpot had grown to $154 million for the Feb. 16 drawing. The Greenbelt jackpot chaser bought five Powerball combinations, [...]
February 17, 2026
Monday night was lucky for two Maryland Lottery players as a $158,107 FAST PLAY winning ticket was sold in Clarksburg and a Powerball ticket sold in Greenbelt hit for a $50,000 third-tier prize. The $158,107 winner was on the $5 FAST PLAY Chili Pepper Payout progressive jackpot game. The hot ticket was sold at the [...]
February 17, 2026
A $1 million scratch-off prize on the Eastern Shore was the biggest Maryland Lottery win last week. Scratch-off games also delivered a $250,000 prize in Hyattsville and a $100,000 win in Jessup. Lottery scratch-offs and draw games also produced eight $50,000 prizes last week in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties. All told, [...]
February 12, 2026
A Michigan-born man who now calls Baltimore home is celebrating a $50,000 Powerball win that came as a complete surprise after more than three decades of playing the lottery. He said he was stunned when he scanned his ticket and saw the winning amount. “It was a huge shock,” he said Feb. 10 when he [...]
February 12, 2026
Aficionados of ancient history are familiar with the phrase "Beware the Ides of March.” That famous line of dialogue from Shakespeare may also be worth passing along to someone who bought a Powerball ticket back in September. On March 15, a $1 million Powerball ticket sold in Clinton is set to expire. The big ticket [...]
February 10, 2026
A Tennessee man was in Maryland for the holidays and went back home with a gift of $100,000 from Powerball. He was intrigued when he saw the Powerball jackpot had reached $1.8 billion for the Dec. 24 drawing. "I saw the jackpot and said to my family, 'Let's get a ticket'," the casual player said. He had [...]
February 10, 2026
A player from Montgomery County is a little happier today winning $50,000 from last night’s Powerball drawing. Check your tickets if you made a purchase at the Giant Food store at 8500 Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase. The winning numbers for the Feb. 9 Powerball drawing are: 6, 19, 22, 28, 48 and a Powerball [...]
February 9, 2026
A $100,000 winning Maryland Lottery ticket sold in Laurel was the hottest win of the past very cold week, and four other tickets warmed things up in Rosedale, Annapolis, Germantown and Windsor Mill with prizes of $50,000 or more. During the week of Feb. 3-8, a total of 24 tickets statewide delivered Lottery prizes of [...]
February 6, 2026
An Eastern Shore man earmarks a small dollar amount for playing the Lottery. He especially likes playing draw games when the jackpots are high. Although there was no monster Powerball jackpot on Jan. 21, he decided to try his luck anyway. Lo and behold, he came away with a $50,000 win. The winner bought his [...]
January 29, 2026
A Maryland Lottery player’s car recently died, so the timing of the Eastern Shore woman’s $50,000 Powerball win was fortuitous. “My car just went out, so I’m going to replace that,” she said Jan. 29 when she claimed her winnings at Lottery headquarters in Baltimore, her husband at her side. A $50,000 third-tier Powerball win [...]
January 26, 2026
Scratch-off tickets delivered the biggest Lottery prizes of the past week in Maryland, including one worth $150,000 sold in Catonsville and two worth $100,000 each sold in Annapolis and Linthicum. During the week of Jan. 19-25, a total of 16 tickets statewide delivered Lottery prizes of $10,000 or more, and across all games players won [...]
January 22, 2026
Check your Powerball tickets if you made a purchase on the Eastern Shore because a $50,000 winner for last night’s drawing was sold in Denton. The winning numbers for the Jan. 21 Powerball drawing are: 11, 26, 27, 53, 55 and a Powerball of 12. The third-tier prize winner was sold at the Goose Creek [...]
January 22, 2026
A Bel Air mom had a collection of Powerball tickets from December and when she checked them last week, she discovered she had a $50,000 winner from the Dec. 10 drawing. "I called my husband and told him the news. He didn't believe me. He thought I was joking," she said Jan. 21 when she [...]
January 12, 2026
A scratch-off ticket in Accokeek worth $200,000 and another in Laurel worth $100,000 topped the list of big winners for the past week as Maryland Lottery players received prizes totaling $34.6 million. During the week of Jan. 5-11, a total of 28 players statewide won Lottery prizes of $10,000 or more. Winners are encouraged to [...]
January 9, 2026
James Cooke Jr., of Prince George’s County, is a Lottery loyalist and now has a hefty lottery prize to show for it. He’s been playing the same combination since before Powerball began in Maryland, going with numbers that represent significant events in his career as a firefighter years ago. In the drawing on Dec. 10, [...]
January 7, 2026
A Baltimore woman got behind on checking her tickets, but when she got around to it, she discovered a gem: a winning $50,000 Powerball ticket in a pile that accumulated over the span of a month. "I had a bunch of Powerball tickets that I needed to check," she said Jan. 6 when she claimed [...]
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