A Maryland woman can thank her license plate number for a recent windfall.
The 50-year-old woman, who has not been identified, told Maryland lottery officials that she originally didn’t like her tag number, 91104. At one point, she even asked to have it changed — only to have her request denied.
But after a few years with her license plate, she said she started seeing the number pop up in unusual places. “He kept showing up everywhere,” she said. “I’ve seen it on paperwork at work, on other car tags, on TV, everywhere.”
Then she started playing the numbers several times a week, but she never imagined that she would actually win. “I really never thought it would actually come out,” she explained to lottery officials in an interview posted on the Maryland Lottery website.
Then, on September 10, a $1 Pick 5 ticket led her to win $50,000. Her husband ran the numbers and, as a result, he was the one who broke the news to his wife. I just started crying, said the winner.
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Her husband said the win “couldn’t have come at a better time” for them. The couple officially claimed their prize at Maryland Lottery headquarters in Baltimore on September 12.
They plan to use part of the profit to pay bills, and save the rest.
Jack’s Fine Food, the Baltimore retailer that sold the ticket, also received good news: The retailer received a $500 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
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The news of the Maryland woman’s big win comes just months after a Maryland man made headlines for winning the Pick 5 lottery game three times in 11 months by playing the same number — 48548 each time.
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According to the state lottery website, the odds of winning the Pick 5 game are 1 in 100,000.
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