Lottery player ‘almost shed a tear’ upon seeing huge Maryland win. ‘I was mind-blown’
A Maryland man had just finished up “making his weekly football picks” at a casino when something caught his eye: a lottery ticket sitting in a vending machine.
The ticket, a Ravens X10 scratch-off, was a fairly new game, so loyal the lottery player decided to give it a shot, Maryland Lottery officials said in an Oct. 25 news release.
Then, days later, the Prince George County man gathered his scratch-off tickets to check them at a gas station.
He was in for a surprise when he scanned his Ravens X10 ticket.
“I couldn’t believe my eyes,” the man told lottery officials. “It said I won, so I scratched the rest of the ticket to see the winning numbers.”
The man won the game’s top prize of $200,000, lottery officials said.
“I almost shed a tear,” he said. “I was mind-blown.”
He told lottery officials he plans to use his winnings to help his daughter pay her college tuition.
Despite his big win, the man told lottery officials it hasn’t “slowed his love of playing lottery games.”
“I picked up some tickets before I came here today,” the man said.
Prince George County is about a 40-mile drive southwest from Baltimore.
This story was originally published October 25, 2024 at 3:05 PM with the headline "Lottery player ‘almost shed a tear’ upon seeing huge Maryland win. ‘I was mind-blown’."
