UPPER MARLBORO, MD – A great-grandmother from Upper Marlboro fell short of winning the Powerball jackpot, but she did win $50,000 in Monday’s drawing.
The grandmother, who chose to remain anonymous, couldn’t believe her eyes and said she had to use a magnifying glass on her ticket just to make sure her eyes were working correctly.
She said she’s going to put her winnings into her home.
“If I’d won the jackpot, I would have paid the house off!” said the Prince George’s County great-grandmother of one and grandmother of four.
A longtime lottery player, her largest lottery win before this was $900, she said.
She bought a single six-dollar ticket at 7-Eleven located at 798 Harry S. Truman Drive in Upper Marlboro, playing three lines of numbers.
She didn’t realize she had won until the next day.
“After the soap operas went off, I dug the tickets out of my purse, and I sat at the kitchen table,” she said. “I pulled the numbers up on my phone.”
There were no jackpot winners in the drawing and players can try to win the estimated annuity prize of $161 million up for grabs in the Saturday, March 4 drawing. The estimated cash option is $82.2 million.