MILLINGTON, MD – A Kent County woman and her father won big in the Maryland Lottery after playing the same Pick 5 number for over a year. The father-daughter duo played the number 83125, which the father received on a free Pick 5 ticket from a Maryland Lottery promotion last year. The number hit on March 24, but only the daughter was a winner that day.
On the morning of March 24, the woman stopped at the Talegate Market in Millington to buy gas and picked up four Pick 5 tickets, each a $1 straight bet, using her father’s lucky numbers for the midday drawing. The manufacturing employee checked the winning numbers using her phone and was in disbelief when she saw that she had won $50,000 on each of the four tickets, for a total prize of $200,000.
The woman hid the tickets in her bedroom and kept checking on them regularly to make sure they were safe. She and her parents drove from the Eastern Shore to Lottery headquarters in Baltimore, where she claimed her prize on Tuesday. Her father didn’t play the lucky number that day and missed out on his big win.
The woman is still considering her plans for her $200,000 prize and said she may help her father get a new vehicle and might go on a beach vacation. Talegate Market, located at 198 Sassafras Street in Millington, will receive a total bonus of $2,000 from the Lottery for selling four $50,000-winning Pick 5 tickets.