BALTIMORE, MD – A Delaware man who said he rarely buys lottery tickets can’t hide the fact that he purchased a scratch-off ticket this week and won $50,000.
The Delaware resident said while driving through Baltimore, he decided to stop and buy a ticket at Royal Farms on East Pulaski Highway in Elkton.
“I am not a Lottery player,” he told Maryland Lottery Commission officials when he came to Baltimore to claim his prize.
“The story of his big win begins with the painter contemplating his family’s finances. The 47-year-old told Lottery officials that an image of a Royal Farms store popped into his head and wouldn’t go away,” the Maryland Lottery said.
“It wasn’t just any Royal Farms, it was the one on Pulaski Highway in Elkton,” he explained. “I drive by it sometimes, but have zero connection to it past that.”
He claims he had a vision to buy the ticket, so the Middletown, Delaware resident got off the couch and got in his car.
“I was trying to make sense of this thing as I drove and couldn’t until I thought of the Lottery,” he said.
He thought he had won just $10,000 but a week later until he realized he won $50,000.
“I took the ticket to a bigger store that I thought could cash a $10,000 ticket,” he said. “While I was there, the clerk helped me figure out that I’d misread one of the prize symbols. The ticket was a $50,000 winner. You should have seen my wife’s face when I got home!”
Based on a press release by the Maryland Lottery Commission.