April 10 (UPI) — A Maryland woman who rarely plays the lottery received a ticket as a gift from a family member and won a $30,000 prize.
The Anne Arundel County woman told Maryland Lottery officials she doesn’t buy tickets for herself very often, but a relative recently gifted her a $3 Bonus Crossword scratch-off ticket.
“We were visiting a sick family member back in March,” the player recalled. “As we were leaving, he just handed it to me.”
The ticket turned out to be a $30,000 winner, but the player wasn’t convinced.
“I knew what I was seeing couldn’t be real, so I didn’t get too excited,” she said. “Even though I knew it wasn’t really what it looked like, I put it in a safe place.”
She said reality didn’t set in until she showed the ticket to her relative.
“I watched his face when I showed him the ticket. That told me all I needed to know,” she said.
