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The winner said he plans to tuck away most of his winnings in savings and might pay off his car.
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A Maryland man doesn’t consider himself a regular lottery player or avid watcher of the news.
Ironically, it was a series of numbers in a news story led him to a big lottery win, Maryland Lottery officials said in an Oct. 24 news release
The man was watching the news and saw the numbers “29000,” lottery officials said.
“When I saw those numbers, a feeling came over me,” he said.
The player used those numbers to play a $1 straight bet on a Pick 5 ticket at a Lanham liquor store, lottery officials said.
He said he tucked the ticket away in his wallet, then “headed back home.”
Days later, the player remembered to check his ticket and found his number combination was an exact match, scoring him a $50,000 prize, lottery officials said.
The man said his win left him in disbelief, “at first.”
“I let it sink in and then let my mother and grandmother confirm it because they are the Lottery players, not me,” he said.
Even his mother was taken aback by her son’s win.
“I was so shocked and surprised to see that he actually won,” the mother told lottery officials. “I’m really happy for him.”
The winner said he plans to tuck away most of his winnings in savings and might pay off his car.
Lanham is about a 15-mile drive northeast from downtown Washington, D.C.
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Daniella Segura
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