Months after winning $10,000 in lottery, Maryland woman scores much bigger prize
This Maryland woman doesn’t buy lottery tickets regularly.
Instead, the Hanover woman waits until “the mood strikes her,” Maryland Lottery officials said in a May 28 news release.
Several months ago, the woman and her fiancé won two $5,000 lottery prizes, officials said.
After tucking that money away, the couple “declared a moratorium” on playing lottery games, officials said.
But then, the woman “was struck by a feeling,” lottery officials said.
“One day on a whim, on my way home from work, I just decided to pick a store,” she told lottery officials.
She browsed tickets at a Crofton liquor store, nearly settling on a game; however, “that book of tickets didn’t have many tickets left,” lottery officials said.
The woman, who wasn’t publicly identified, instead bought $5,000,000 Fortune tickets and tucked them away to scratch later in the day, lottery officials said.
She had dinner with her fiancé, then told him, “We’re about to win $5 million,” according to lottery officials.
The woman scratched her tickets “and her intuition proved mostly accurate,” lottery officials said.
One of the $50 tickets scored her a $100,000 prize, leaving her and her fiancé “thrilled,” lottery officials said.
“I’m very grateful,” the winner said.
She told lottery officials she has no concrete plans for the winnings but that it would come in handy for her small wedding later in the year.
Most of the prize, she said, will be tucked away in savings.
The woman told lottery officials she “absolutely” plans to continue playing lottery games “when I feel it.”
“I have to have a feeling,” she said.
Crofton is about a 25-mile drive southwest from Baltimore.
This story was originally published May 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM with the headline "Months after winning $10,000 in lottery, Maryland woman scores much bigger prize."
