Man randomly picks lottery ticket at Maryland store — and prize leaves him ‘shocked’
As a man mulled over his lottery ticket options at a Maryland convenience store, one “caught his eye.”
The Cecil County man decided to take a chance on the “random scratch-off” ticket, Maryland Lottery officials said in a July 12 news release.
The maintenance worker scanned his Bingo X10 scratch-off at the store, officials said.
To his surprise, a message popped on screen advising him to head to lottery headquarters to pick up his prize.
While the man and his wife knew he won “a substantial prize,” they weren’t expecting to take home a “top-prize win.”
“We knew he had won something, but we just didn’t know how much,” the man’s wife told lottery officials.
“We thought it was a couple thousand,” the man said, per the release.
Turns out, the man won a bit more.
After scanning the ticket with a phone at home, the man learned he won the game’s top prize of $100,000, officials said.
The man was “shocked,” according to the release.
“I couldn’t believe it,” he said. “I was very happy to win.”
The man told lottery officials he plans to spend his winnings paying off his house and fixing up his wife’s car.
Cecil County is about a 50-mile drive northeast from Baltimore.
This story was originally published July 12, 2024 at 4:29 PM with the headline "Man randomly picks lottery ticket at Maryland store — and prize leaves him ‘shocked’."
