Friend’s advice about lottery ticket led to sleepless night — for a good reason
After a Maryland woman scanned her lottery tickets, she couldn’t sleep — but for a good reason.
The human resources specialist was on her lunch break July 7 and stopped by a Baltimore convenience store, where she bought some lottery tickets per the suggestion of a friend, Maryland Lottery officials said in a July 11 news release.
“I always tell her to try to get the new ones,” the friend told lottery officials. “You’ll have a better chance at finding the big ones.”
The woman, from Bowie, bought four $5 Cash Blast tickets, which went on sale in late June, lottery officials said.
When she was home later that day, she scratched and scanned her tickets, lottery officials said.
Upon scanning her fourth ticket, she realized she had won a $50,000 prize; a win that led to a sleepless night.
“My stomach was in knots,” she told lottery officials. “I feel so overjoyed and overwhelmed.”
The winner sent her friend a screenshot of the prize amount, “so he could see his advice paid off,” she said.
“I said, ‘How many zeroes do you see after the comma?’” the woman told lottery officials.
This story was originally published July 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM with the headline "Friend’s advice about lottery ticket led to sleepless night — for a good reason."
