‘Terrible headache’ leads to big lottery win for lucky Maryland player
A Maryland lottery player went from an unfortunate situation to a very lucky moment when she picked up a winning ticket.
The Anne Arundel County woman won a $200,000 top prize from a Ravens X10 scratch-off ticket she bought for $10 in November, the Maryland Lottery said in an April 16 news release.
“I had a terrible headache,” the woman told lottery officials. “I went to the store to get some medicine and stopped for gas on the way home. While I was there, I picked up a ticket.”
She scanned her ticket right then and there at the store. When a message she didn’t recognize popped up, she left thinking there was a problem, according to lottery officials.
However, back at home, the woman scanned her ticket again using the lottery app and learned she’d won the game’s top prize, the lottery said.
“I was shocked!” the woman told lottery officials.
She said she told her family she had something special to share but forgot to actually tell them for months.
“My sister asked, ‘what was that news you wanted to share?’ That’s when it hit me — I never cashed in my ticket,” she said.
The lottery winner said she hopes to donate some of the money to church or charity, or give to her family and save some of it.
“I really hope to do good with it,” she told lottery officials.
She bought her ticket at a gas station in Odenton, about at 20-mile drive southwest from Baltimore, according to lottery officials.
The odds of winning the top prize in the Ravens X10 game are 1 in 3.28, according to the lottery.
The game started in August and has four remaining top prize tickets, lottery officials said.
This story was originally published April 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM with the headline "‘Terrible headache’ leads to big lottery win for lucky Maryland player."
