WASHINGTON COUNTY, MARYLAND – A 33-year-old Washington County player is $100,000 richer today after finding a top prize hiding under the number 26 on a MONOPOLY™ X50 scratch-off.
She initially mistook her win for $1,000 last Friday but soon cleared up her confusion. The lucky player from the small town of Keedysville enjoys playing scratch-off games, especially the MONOPOLY™ X50 instant ticket, because she has won smaller amounts on the $10 game in the past.
On this special day, the scratch-off fan was thirsty and stopped at Battleview Market in Sharpsburg to buy a cool drink. While there, she purchased two MONOPOLY™ X50 games. The first instant ticket was not a winner. When she scratched the second instant ticket and matched the number 26 on the first row, she knew she won something.
“When I started to scratch the prize amount, I saw the one and some zeroes, so I thought it was $1,000,” she said. The operations manager handed the scratch-off to the cashier to check.
“The cashier said, ‘I need to show this in the back,’ ” said the lucky player. “When she came back out, she told me I won $100,000! It was unreal.”
The married mother with a combined family of six scanned the instant ticket one last time and then left the store to call her husband. “When she told me it was $100,000, I just couldn’t believe it was real,” said her husband. He accompanied the winner to Lottery headquarters in Baltimore to claim the prize, which they plan to put into savings.
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Battleview Market, located at 5331 Sharpsburg Pike in Sharpsburg, is celebrating this win, too. The Washington County retailer receives a $1,000 bonus from the Lottery for selling a $100,000 top-prize winning scratch-off.
The MONOPOLY X50 scratch-off game, which still has seven $100,000 top prizes remaining, went on sale Jan. 17, 2022, as part of the MONOPOLY Second-Chance Promotion from the Maryland Lottery. The following scratch-offs joined the $10 ticket: $1 MONOPOLY X5, $2 MONOPOLY X10 and $5 MONOPOLY X20. In addition, two FAST PLAY games were introduced: $3 MONOPOLY Game Tokens and $20 MONOPOLY Properties.
Players can enter any non-winning MONOPOLY™ scratch-off and winning or non-winning FAST PLAY MONOPOLY™ tickets into My Lottery Rewards for a chance to win cash prizes. Six drawings will take place, with each drawing awarding one Rolling Cash Jackpot and ten $2,500 prizes. A Rolling Cash Jackpot is a prize that starts at $2,500 at the beginning of each promotion period, and grows until the drawing date. Additional information is available at mdlottery.com/monopoly.