Baltimore, MD – A Baltimore County correctional system administrator who nearly gave up on his favorite lottery strategy walked into Maryland Lottery headquarters Tuesday with a $40,000 Mega Millions ticket in hand.
The Rosedale resident, who asked not to be named, said he had long abandoned the practice of playing family birthdays as his numbers after years of disappointment. But last month, on a whim, he returned to those dates — and won big.
“I won $2,000 last year, my biggest prize ever,” he said. “I don’t buy tickets too often, and when I do, I never spend more than $5.”
This time, his $5 Mega Millions ticket from the Aug. 12 drawing yielded a five-digit prize. “$40,000? How could this be, I thought?” he recalled.
The winning ticket was the first he purchased using his wife’s and children’s birth months and years since abandoning the system.
“The first ticket I bought with the numbers was this one. Amazing,” he said.
Key Points
- A Rosedale man won $40,000 in the Aug. 12 Mega Millions drawing.
- He picked family birthdays, a method he had previously stopped using.
- The correctional system administrator had only spent $5 on the winning ticket.
Sometimes luck comes back around when you least expect it.
