Daughter tells dad to buy lottery tickets — then win has family ‘singing and dancing’

A daughter urged her father to play a lottery game in Maryland.

He’s now $50,000 richer.

He bought five Big Money scratch-off tickets in Elkton, the Maryland Lottery said in an Oct. 13 news release.

“I wasn’t going to play that one, but my daughter talked me into it,” the man, who didn’t want to be identified, said to lottery officials.

When he scratched the last row on one of the games, he realized he had won thousands and he “couldn’t believe it.”

Then he shared the news with his wife and daughters.

“We started dancing and singing,” he said.

Now the lucky lottery player has plans to invest some of his money in a CD and his savings, and potentially a new home.

Elkton is about 50 miles northeast of Baltimore.

This story was originally published October 13, 2023 at 5:57 PM with the headline "Daughter tells dad to buy lottery tickets — then win has family ‘singing and dancing’."

Helena Wegner

McClatchy DC

Helena Wegner is a McClatchy National Real-Time Reporter covering the state of Washington and the western region. She’s a journalism graduate from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She’s based in Phoenix.