CHESTERTOWN, MD – An Eastern Shore man plopped down $2 for a Bonus 5 Match lottery ticket last week and ended up winning the $50,000 top prize. The Kent County man, who has a rather peculiar method to picking numbers used that method to win the jackpot.
He would not reveal how he chooses his numbers. The winner preferred to remain anonymous.
“It’s a miracle,” he said on March 6 while claiming his prize at Lottery headquarters in Baltimore. H
He bought the $2 worth of games at Chestertown’s Lewes Dairy, one of his Lottery mainstays, and went home.
After checking his ticket he had to do a double-take before realizing he won.
“I looked at it and I had to look again. I said, ‘I got all five!’” he said.
“He also got four out of five on the second ticket for a $400 payout. This was far and away his biggest win ever, as his last big prize was a three-digit score about five or six years ago,” the Maryland Lottery said
After claiming his Bonus Match 5 top prize, “Starr” said, “I was blessed,” adding that he mostly plays as an amusement and will continue playing in the future.
Asked about plans for his winnings, he said, “I’m going to get another car. I’ve got an old, beat-up piece of junk.”