Lottery player wins big at 7-Eleven — then quietly leaves store with exciting secret
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A woman bought a scratch-off lottery game she’s never played before from a 7-Eleven in Maryland — and luck was on her side.
She left the store quietly after seeing her $50,000 win, according to a June 24 Maryland Lottery news release.
The woman bought a Fast Play Double Win ticket from a vending machine in Frostburg. The game costs $5 to play.
“I thought, ‘I will try this new game,’” she told lottery officials, who did not disclose her name.
She said she knew she won the top prize when the ticket came out of the machine, so she left the store quietly.
Once in her car, she double-checked the ticket through a lottery app and saw the prize flash across her screen.
She then ran her errands, lottery officials said.
“I had the ticket sitting beside me in the passenger seat because I wanted to stare at it,” she said in the release.
The lottery player told her husband and daughter about her win, but besides them, she wants to keep her prize a secret.
She has plans to pay off her car with the money.
Frostburg is about 150 miles northwest of Baltimore.
This story was originally published July 25, 2023 at 6:10 PM with the headline "Lottery player wins big at 7-Eleven — then quietly leaves store with exciting secret."
