Aunt asks niece to double-check her lottery ticket — and is shocked to learn she won big
A woman got big news when she called her niece to double-check her lottery ticket in Maryland.
She was a $50,000 winner.
The woman picked up some scratch-off games after work in the community of California, the Maryland Lottery said in a Nov. 6 news release.
She bought six Gold Bar Bingo games for $5 a piece, the lottery office said.
Then she went home, got into her pajamas and started scratching away.
One of the tickets appeared to be a winner, so she called her niece to take a second look. She sent a photo of the ticket and was told she had won the top prize.
“I didn’t believe it,” she told the lottery office. “I’m sitting here and I am still in disbelief.”
Now, she plans to use the prize money on a vacation and to “make the holidays extra special this year.”
The community of California is about a 65-mile drive southeast from Washington, D.C.
This story was originally published November 6, 2024 at 12:53 PM with the headline "Aunt asks niece to double-check her lottery ticket — and is shocked to learn she won big."
