April 4 (UPI) — A Maryland woman bought a pair of identical tickets for the same Pick 5 drawing using numbers from her car’s odometer and ended up winning a total $100,000.
The Prince George’s County woman told Maryland Lottery officials she is a regular Pick 4 player, and has even collected prizes of up to $5,000 in the past.
The woman said she recently decided to give Pick 5 a try, and bought two tickets bearing the last five digits from her car’s odometer from the 7-Eleven on Livingston Road in Fort Washington.
The player visited the store again after the drawing and scanned one of her tickets.
“When I scanned my ticket, it said ‘$50,000 winner,'” the winner recalled. “I was shook! I ran out of the store and went straight to my car to call my dad.”
The woman’s tickets each earned her a $50,000 prize, for a total of $100,000.
She said the prize money, which she described as both “a dream and a blessing,” will be put to good use paying bills, paying off her car and sharing with her father.
