Powerball player’s son thinks she’s hurt, but she was ‘screaming with joy’ over win
A mom’s excited yell had her son thinking she’d hurt herself, but she’d actually won big playing Powerball, lottery officials in Maryland said.
The woman bought her winning $50,000 ticket at a convenience store in Frederick, the Maryland Lottery said in a Feb. 27 news release.
“She’s played the same random numbers for five years but on Feb. 22, had a special feeling when the time came to buy a ticket for that night’s drawing,” lottery officials said. “She spent $10 and used her own numbers (on) all five lines.”
The woman was “enjoying a cup of tea” the next morning when she learned she was a winner, according to lottery officials, who described her as “ecstatic.”
The woman, who works as a bus driver, shouted to her son.
“She sounded so excited that her son feared she had fallen and was injured. He was quite relieved to learn she was screaming with joy over a big Lottery win,” lottery officials said.
The woman will use the windfall to help her son with future college costs, plus invest and save, according to lottery officials.
The next Powerball drawing is March 1, with an estimated $272 million jackpot, according to the national Powerball website.
Frederick is about a 50-mile drive northwest from Baltimore.
This story was originally published February 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM with the headline "Powerball player’s son thinks she’s hurt, but she was ‘screaming with joy’ over win."
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