A customer purchases Powerball lottery tickets in Washington in 2012. The Maryland Lottery says a retired utility worker has won a $2 million prize for the second time since 2018.
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A customer purchases Powerball lottery tickets in Washington in 2012. The Maryland Lottery says a retired utility worker has won a $2 million prize for the second time since 2018.
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A little over three years ago, a utility worker in Maryland won $2 million from a scratch-off lottery game that he bought for $30. Turns out his luck hasn’t run out yet.
Last week, the Maryland Lottery announced that the now retired utility worker had won another $2 million in a scratch-off game rightfully named $2,000,000 Richer.
The man, whose name has not been made public, bought two scratch-offs for the game at a local Exxon station after running some morning errands, according to the Maryland Lottery.
While in his car, the first ticket revealed itself to be a $100 prize. Things only got better from there. When he scratched off the second ticket, it revealed a “Gold Bar” emblem indicating he had won a $2 million prize.
He hid the ticket in a safe
The man, 65, drove home and stashed the ticket in a safe. He waited to claim the prize money until days before the deadline because of the pandemic, according to the Maryland Lottery. He was nervous the entire time he was waiting.
“I worried that I could have a fire (at home) that would burn it up, that the ticket’s expiration date might come up and even had just a bit of doubt that it was really real,” he told the Maryland Lottery.
It was Déjà vu all over again
The first time he won, he also had trouble believing it was real. “I kept thinking this has to be one of those prank cards,” he said in 2018.
When he bought his first winning ticket at an Eagle Express Mart, he didn’t tell his wife until the next day because he was still in disbelief.
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Source: https://www.npr.org/2021/11/01/1051113368/maryland-lottery-man-wins-2-million-dollar-prize-twice