Per Maryland Lottery: A lucky Silver Spring man is seeing plenty of green, thanks to an Extreme Green scratch-off that came his way. The 47-year-old scored a $50,000 top-prize win on the $5 game. The Montgomery County resident found his lucky instant ticket at Courthouse Exxon located at 700 Rockville Pike in Rockville. After scratching the entire play area, he saw that one of his numbers matched 17, which was one of the winning numbers. That number had a corresponding prize of $50,000.
A $25,000 “Pick 5” lottery ticket was sold on September 27 at the Sunoco Gas Station at 6907 New Hampshire Avenue in Takoma Park. The ticket remains unclaimed as of today, October 3. According to the Maryland Lottery, “Draw game winners have 182 days from the date of a drawing to claim their prizes, and scratch-off winners have 182 days from the announced end-of-game date.”
In all, 36 winning tickets worth $10,000 or more were sold or redeemed in the seven days ending Oct. 2, and the Lottery paid more than $29.6 million in prizes during that span.
Her lucky $2,000,000 Gold Rush game debuted in February with five $2 million top prizes and eight $50,000 second-tier winners. Remaining are four top prizes and five of the $50,000 prizes that the lucky lady tells us is a miracle for her family.
“Any single mom with a fistful of bills would see this as a miracle,” she said. “It is such a huge help.”
He played a number of tickets and said he had won about $200 before deciding to replay one of his tickets — a 50-cent Superfecta Box ticket for one race. He picked the 1, 10, 11 and 12 horses to finish in the top four in any order. When the order of finish in that race was 11, 12, 1 and 10, he knew he was a big winner.
“I said ‘Oh!’ and then I stopped myself,” he said with a smile. “I didn’t want to say too much right there. I checked the ticket in the store and then I left and I checked it again. And again. I probably checked it about 20 more times.”
A $100,000 winning Powerball ticket was sold on September 5 at the Harris Teeter located at 323 Copley Place in Gaithersburg. The ticket remains unclaimed as of September 12, according to the Maryland Lottery. Other MoCo winners from the past week include a $10,000 scratch off sold at 7-Eleven (121 Kentlands Blvd) in Gaithersburg, a $15,000 Keno ticket sold at Brighton Beer & Wine (225 Muddy Branch Road) in Gaithersburg, and a $10,606 Racetrax ticket sold at Sunshine Ethio (6907 New Hampshire Ave) in Takoma Park.
Winners of prizes larger than $25,000 must redeem their tickets at the Maryland Lottery Customer Resource Center in Baltimore, which is open by appointment only. Prizes of 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 up to and including $600. More information is available on the How To Claim page of mdlottery.com.
The Montgomery County man has favored 12345 as his Pick 5 number of choice ever since the digits hit on a significant date in February. “Jumper” missed a win on his birthday when he got a haircut instead of placing a $1 straight bet on 12345. His other favorite number is 8, which leads him to buy Lottery games with 8 in the name as well as 888 in Pick 3 and 8888 on Pick 4.
“I like 8s, period,” he said. The $50,000 Pick 5 prize that the married father just won in the Aug. 19 drawing is his biggest prize to date, well exceeding a $15,000 prize won over a decade ago.
A “Diamond Bingo” scratch off with a prize of $50,000 was sold this past week at Rodmans (4301 Randolph Road), according to the Maryland Lottery. Other recent winners include a $530,000 Multi-Match Jackpot lottery ticket that was sold on September 1 at the State Line Market (7817 Eastern Ave) in Silver Spring and a $51,422.50 ticket sold Sept. 4 at Hillendale Beer and Wine (10117 New Hampshire Ave), the latter of which has yet to be claimed as of September 6.
Meanwhile, another eight players won amounts ranging from $50,000 to $100,000 in Adelphi, Annapolis, Bel Air, Brentwood, Cockeysville, Laurel, Millersville and Silver Spring.
This marks the third time a Multi-Match jackpot has been hit in 2022. The winner can choose between the annuity or the estimated $280,000 cash option (before taxes). In addition to hitting the jackpot on the $10 ticket, the lucky player won an additional $4,542.
The $50,000-winning Bonus Match 5 player bought a lucky ticket from Shoppers #2347 located at 3441 Laurel Fort Meade Road in Laurel. The winning numbers in the drawing were 3, 4, 19, 22 and 28; the Bonus Ball was 39. This is the 31st top-prize winning Bonus Match 5 ticket sold in Maryland this year.
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“I was walking my dog when I checked my ticket on the Lottery app,” said the rehabilitation counselor. “I literally jumped for joy.” Calling his wife as he hurried home, the 58-year-old shared the good news and his excitement was contagious. “She was very, very happy, sort of laughing and crying on the phone.”
The Montgomery County couple, along with their extended family, experienced a pre-vacation nightmare recently that involved payments gone missing. While they continue looking into the unusual situation, their Lottery surprise will do much to make them whole.
“My wife’s winnings were enough for me to buy a game that I had tried a few times with pretty good success,” the 47 year-old construction worker explained to lottery officials. Jose told us that he buys a ticket just about every day when he picks up his wife from work. “It was the VIP CLUB game I had my eye on. It has a $2 million top prize!”
Scratching his ticket, Jose saw what he thought was a $50 match. “I scanned it, just to be sure and right away saw the $50 prize, followed by a bunch of zeros. It was confusing at first, until I realized that I’d won $50,000.” The Montgomery County couple refused to believe what they were seeing until the clerk confirmed it, which he quickly did. “My wife shouted and jumped up in the air.”