The woman wins 100,000 $ Maryland Lottery Prize with numbers from car meters

A Maryland Lottery The player recently got his big break with a little help from an unlikely source.

After finding less success with Game Pick 4 – including a $ 5,000 price – a woman from Fort Washington “decided to try her hand” on her equivalent, Pick 5 and bought two tickets, Lottery officials said on Thursday, April 3.

By adopting a successful strategy that gave her luck in Pick 4, the woman chose, who chose to remain anonymous, the last five figures on the kilometer on her car.

Then she drove away from 7-Eleven where she bought the tickets.

When she returned later that night, stopped to pick up some articles and to scan her tickets, she realized that she had won the top prize. Twice.

Her total price amounted to $ 100,000 – a surprise win that is both “a dream and a blessing,” she said in a statement.

“When I scanned my ticket, it said: ‘50,000 dollars winners. ‘ I was shaken!

In addition to the victory of $ 100,000, the 7-Eleven who sold the tickets will also collect a check of $ 1,000 in total, or $ 500 for each winning ticket.

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The woman plans to keep her profit mostly to pay off some of her bills and her car.

But, she said, she will also share some means with her father as gratitude for being a big parent.