The Week in Winners: Scratch-Off Pays $500,000 in Havre de Grace; Powerball Rolls to $740 Million

A half-million-dollar scratch-off sold in Havre de Grace and a $111,971 FAST PLAY ticket in Bethesda topped the Maryland Lottery list of big winners for the week.

As the Powerball jackpot inched toward three quarters of a billion dollars, two Maryland players won $50,000 third-tier prizes. Tonight’s Powerball jackpot (Dec. 1) has an estimated annuity value of $740 million, with a cash option of $346.1 million.

The first Holiday Raffle Early Bird drawing was held on Nov. 24. The $50,000 winning ticket, sold in Rockville, we claimed the following day.

On all games, players won more than $30.4 million across Maryland in the week Nov. 24-30 including 22 tickets worth $10,000 or more.

Winners are encouraged to sign the backs of tickets and keep winning tickets in a safe location. Tickets for draw games expire 182 days after the drawing date. FAST PLAY tickets expire 182 days after purchase. The last dates to claim for scratch-off tickets are posted on the scratch-offs page at mdlottery.com.

Winners of prizes larger than $25,000 must redeem tickets at the Maryland Lottery Customer Resource Center in Baltimore, which is open by appointment only. Prizes up to $25,000 can be claimed at the cashier window of any of the six casinos in Maryland. Prizes up to $5,000 can be claimed at any of more than 400 Expanded Cashing Authority Program (XCAP) locations. All Maryland Lottery retailers are authorized to redeem tickets worth up to and including $600. More information is available on the How to Claim page of the Lottery website.

Here’s the weekly roundup of big winners:

Scratch-off prizes claimed Nov. 24-30

$500,000 Prizes

  • Gifts of Green ticket sold at Post Road Liquors at1123 Revolution Street in Havre de Grace

$50,000 Prize

  • Mosaic Money ticket sold at the Gulf gas station at 6211 Livingston Road in Oxon Hill

$10,000 Prizes

  • $100,000 Crossword 9th Edition ticket sold at Ashland Café at 10810 York Road in Cockeysville
  • All About Cash ticket sold at Kent Village Liquors at 7309 Landover Road in Landover
  • Deluxe Crossword 10th Edition ticket sold Sunoco A Plus at 2391 Pulaski Highway in North East
  • Gold Bar Bingo 6th Edition ticket sold at Keller’s Market at 15624 Livingston Road in Accokeek
  • Lucky 777 ticket sold at Wegmans at 8855 McGaw Road in Columbia

FAST PLAY and draw game tickets sold for drawings Nov. 24-30:

FAST PLAY

  • $111,971 Cash Combination progressive jackpot ticket sold Nov. 29 at Maple Beer and Wine at 8125 Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda (unclaimed as of Dec. 1)
  • $15,167 Slots of Fun progressive jackpot ticket sold Nov. 26 at the Royal Farms at 8551 Fort Smallwood Road in Pasadena (unclaimed as of Dec. 1)
  • $10,000 Grand Progressive ticket sold Nov. 24 at the 7-Eleven at 7440 Holabird Avenue in Dundalk (unclaimed as of Dec. 1)
  • $10,000 Ultimate Payday Progressive ticket sold Nov. 28 at A1 Plaza Liquors and Wines, 3215 Plaza Way in Waldorf (claimed)

HOLIDAY RAFFLE EARLY BIRD

  • $50,000 Early Bird Holiday Raffle ticket sold Nov. 13 at the 7-Eleven at 700 Gaither Road in Rockville (claimed)

PICK 5

  • $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 25 at Westside Liquors at 2413 Frederick Road in Baltimore (unclaimed as of Dec. 1)
  • $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 28 at Forbes BP at 9701 Annapolis Road in Lanham (unclaimed as of Dec. 1)
  • $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 25 at the Safeway at 909 Thayer Lane in Silver Spring (unclaimed as of Dec. 1)
  • $25,000 ticket sold Nov. 30 at Discount Tobacco and Beauty Supply at 1547 Hyde Park Road in Essex (unclaimed as of Dec. 1)
  • $25,000 ticket sold Nov. 23 at the Mobil gas station at 11800 Livingston Road in Fort Washington (claimed)
  • $25,000 ticket sold Nov. 23 at Tantallon Exxon at 10815 Indian Head Highway in Fort Washington (unclaimed as of Dec. 1)
  • $25,000 ticket sold Nov. 28 at Mike’s Liquors at 5301 Indian Head Highway in Oxon Hill (claimed)

POWERBALL

  • $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 25 at Dollar Plus at 108 South Broadway in Baltimore (unclaimed as of Dec. 1)
  • $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 26 at Harris Teeter at 1801 Whetstone Way in Baltimore (claimed)

RACETRAX

  • $11,431.60 ticket sold Nov. 30 at the 7-Eleven at 4450 Solomon’s Island Road in Harwood (unclaimed as of Dec. 1)