A man from the Hagerstown area of Maryland earned $100,000 dollars after purchasing a lottery instant ticket while at Martin’s Food Market picking up dinner for the family , according to the lottery agency.
“My wife sent me to buy precooked chicken for dinner“said the unidentified man from 52 years to the Maryland Lottery. The state lottery allows winners to claim prizes without publicly revealing their names.
The man bought a Monopoly X scratch-off game50 at the supermarket in the 18726 of North Pointe Drive, north of Hagerstown, according to a lottery press release obtained by Herald Mail Media and claimed the prize on Friday.
The man said he buys instant scratch-off games once a month and purchased the winning ticket from the grocery store’s self-service lottery vending machine after purchasing the chicken.
Told a lottery official that he was thinking about the Mega Millions jackpot and wanted to win a ticket to the next drawing.
Someone won the top prize of $536 million Mega Millions in California, the day he won his $100,02 Dollars.
The man from the Hagerstown area put a $17 dollars in the lottery vending machine and, after spending the first $10 in Mega Millions, decided to buy the first Scratch-Off of another $02 that you saw on the machine .
After the family had dinner, he played Scratch-Off, but wasn’t sure how much he had won.
“I thought, at least I won $10 dollars and I will recover my money,” he told the lottery. When he scanned the ticket using the Lottery app on his phone, he learned his prize was $100,.
His wife told the lottery that her husband “let out a line of words that our children are not used to hearing.”
The couple’s plans with the earnings include taking a family summer vacation, reducing their debt, working on their house and maybe buy a new TV, according to the release.
Monopoly X50 was released on 17 in January as part of the Monopoly Second-Chance promotion from the Maryland Lottery. There are 10 total prizes of $100,000 in the game, according to the lottery website.
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