By Raúl Rodríguez Cota
26 Feb 2024, 15:42 PM EST
A Western Maryland woman and her husband discovered that a lottery ticket they initially thought had a $5,000 prize actually had a much larger prize. And the prize was actually $50,000 dollars.
Seeing that she had hit the fat man, the woman asked for a few days off from work with the sole intention of taking care of the bill.
On February 20, while the couple was returning home from work and making a gas stop at the BFS Foods station in the town of McHenry, the woman decided to try her luck with a Power Cash scratch-off game, a game that had been launched just the day before.
When he scratched off his ticket, which cost him only $5, he thought he had won $5,000.
However, when he scanned the ticket in the Maryland Lottery app, he discovered that he had missed the multiplier that increased his prize tenfold.
“I didn’t know about the multiplier!” she shared excitedly upon arriving at the lottery headquarters in Baltimore. “I took two days off work to take care of the ticket!”
The woman became the first $50,000 winner of this game, and there are still seven $50,000 top prizes waiting to be claimed.
The woman, who said she has two small children and many expenses, said she plans to seek professional advice on investing her money. She also hopes to buy a house.
He also plans to hold a low-key celebration to commemorate his new fortune.
BFS Foods in McHenry, the establishment that sold the winning ticket, will receive a $500 bonus from the Maryland Lottery for selling the winning ticket.
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