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The Week in Winners: Mega Millions, Powerball Jackpots Grow as Players in Maryland Hit Big

March 25, 2024
Nearly $31.8 million in prizes won in the past week across the state Powerball players across Maryland won substantial prizes in Baltimore, Dundalk, Ellicott City and Gaithersburg last week as the game’s jackpot grew to within striking distance of $1 billion. Meanwhile, a Mega Millions player in Fruitland won $20,000 as that game soared past [...]

Learning English Leads to $100,000 Scratch-Off Win

March 21, 2024

Lucky woman claims top prize playing $100,000 Crossword game Lottery officials hear many stories of why a player chooses a particular scratch-off to play. Some say they like the game’s play style, find the ticket’s design appealing or the game’s name caught their attention. A Prince George’s County woman who was playing crossword-themed scratch-offs to […]

The Week in Winners: Two New Laurel Lottery Millionaires, Thanks to Scratch-off Wins

February 27, 2024
Nearly $33 million in prizes won in the past week throughout Maryland Laurel has two new millionaires thanks to Maryland Lottery scratch-off wins, and five players won Lottery prizes of $100,000 or more in Baltimore, Elkton, Hyattsville, Pasadena and Waldorf. And, while the Mega Millions jackpot increased to $563 million over the weekend because no [...]

The Week in Winners: Players Win Six-Digit Prizes in Chesapeake City, Adelphi, Rockville, Temple Hills

February 20, 2024
Nearly $29 million in prizes won in the past week throughout Maryland A Maryland Lottery ticket sold in Chesapeake City for the Feb. 17 Powerball drawing was last week’s biggest winner at $150,000, but another three tickets worth $100,000 each were sold in Adelphi, Rockville and Temple Hills. In all, 34 Maryland Lottery tickets worth [...]

The Week in Winners: $1,000 A Week for Life Prize Sold in Silver Spring; Eastern Shore Scratch-Off Pays $5 Million

February 13, 2024
Nearly $33 million in prizes are claimed in the past week throughout Maryland A Maryland Lottery player in Silver Spring won $1,000 a week for life from the Feb. 8 Cash4Life drawing, and an Eastern Shore winner claimed a $5 million top prize on a scratch-off purchased in the Wicomico County town of Willards. As [...]

$50,000 Lottery Win To Help Rockville Woman Fund Medical School

January 12, 2024

Christmas Day Powerball drawing gives student a graduate school boost Aided by $50,000 from a third-tier Powerball win in the Christmas Day drawing, a Rockville player hopes to attend medical school and concentrate in pediatric medicine. For her short-term plan, however, “I’m going to put it in savings,” she said. The anonymous winner told Lottery […]

The Week in Winners: Powerball Delivers $200,000 Prize as Jackpot Rolls Into New Year

January 2, 2024
Lottery players across the state won $40.7 million during week ending Dec. 31 With the Powerball jackpot surging past $800 million as 2024 began, the game delivered the Maryland Lottery’s biggest prize of the past week. On Dec. 30, in the final Powerball drawing of 2023, a lucky player in Prince George’s County won a [...]

The Week in Winners: $50,000 Wins Scratched in Baltimore Area, Chestertown and Suburban D.C.

December 27, 2023
Lottery players across the state won more than $31 million during week ending Dec. 24 Maryland Lottery winners continued to claim winning tickets last week as the holiday season was in full swing, including several at the $50,000 level. Total winnings for the week remained on par with other weeks this year, coming in at [...]

$50,000 Holiday Scratch-off Prize Stuns Montgomery County Nurse

December 21, 2023

Top-prize win is her biggest ever She’s an occasional Lottery player, a Silver Spring woman told Lottery officials this week when she visited Baltimore to claim a prize won over the weekend. The decision to play, she reports, is always a spur-of-the-moment one. Happily, the decision, the moment and the Holiday Cash scratch-off she picked […]

The Week in Winners: Scratch-Offs Turn Lottery Players into Millionaires in Clarksville, Pasadena

October 30, 2023
People across the state won nearly $31.7 million during week ending Oct. 29 Maryland has two new millionaires thanks to Maryland Lottery scratch-off tickets sold in Clarksville and Pasadena, and a player in Seabrook hit Multi-Match for a half-million-dollar annuity prize. The Multi-Match prize was unclaimed as of Oct. 30. In all, 44 Maryland Lottery [...]

The Week in Winners: Powerball Makes Two New Millionaires in Rosedale, Snow Hill as Jackpot Surpasses $1 Billion

October 2, 2023
Players across the state won more than $28.8 million during week ending Oct. 1 As the Powerball jackpot increased to $1.04 billion for the Oct. 2 drawing because no one matched all six numbers, but two Maryland players -- one in Rosedale and the other in Snow Hill -- matched five of six to win [...]

The Week in Winners: Tickets in Brooklyn Park, College Park, Hagerstown, Landover Win $100,000

September 25, 2023
Players across the state won nearly $32.1 million during week ending Sept. 24 The Powerball top prize has surged to an estimated jackpot approaching $800 million for the Sept. 25 drawing, but it was scratch-off tickets that delivered the Maryland Lottery’s biggest prizes last week. Maryland Lottery players in Brooklyn Park, College Park, Hagerstown and [...]

Bonus Match 5, Mega Millions Players Win Prizes of $50,000, $20,000

September 20, 2023

Winning tickets sold in Baltimore, Rockville, Silver Spring Congratulations to our three big winners in two Tuesday night drawings. Lucky players won a $50,000 Bonus Match 5 top prize and two Mega Millions third-tier prizes of $20,000 and $10,000. Meanwhile, Powerball returns to the spotlight tonight with an estimated jackpot annuity of $672 million. The […]

Casual Player from Hyattsville Wins $100,000 Playing Powerball

August 7, 2023
Prize from March 25 drawing went unclaimed for months because of disbelief  A casual Maryland Lottery player from Hyattsville won $100,000 on the March 25 Powerball drawing, but waited until Aug. 4 to claim the third-tier prize because it didn’t seem like it was real. Back on March 25, the estimated jackpot was at $112 [...]

The Week in Winners: Lottery Millionaires Minted in Baltimore, Catonsville, Clarksville, Greensboro

July 24, 2023
Players across the state won nearly $32.7 million during week ending July 23 While no one has hit the Mega Millions jackpot, which now stands at $820 million, and the billion-dollar-plus Powerball prize was won in California, the two games produced four new Maryland millionaires in the past week, one each in Baltimore, Catonsville, Clarksville [...]