Doubly Good Win For Pasadena Lottery Player

PASADENA, MD — An afternoon off from work never tasted sweeter than it did last week for an Anne Arundel County healthcare provider, whose stop at a local convenience store was lucky. The scratch-off player, who always selects her tickets by the twosome, picked a pair of scratch-offs and won a $200,000 top-prize.

“For some reason, I began buying my scratch-offs in pairs and have stuck with it,” the 51 year-old said in a Maryland Lottery news release, adding that it’s a strategy that has paid off before, but never to the degree it did this time. She purchased the tickets from one of the Lottery’s new touch-screen vending machines, scrolling through the selections until she found a game that caught her eye. She selected a $10 $200,000 Jackpot scratch-off and purchased two of them.

“Is that right?” she asked herself as she stared at one of the tickets after scratching it. She was a $10 winner on one of the tickets, but the other delivered a $200,000 top prize.

The Pasadena resident she didn’t allow herself to fully process the significance of the win until she called the Lottery to confirm what she was seeing. She read the numbers one-by-one until the voice on the other end of the line told her what she already knew – that she was a $200,000 winner.

The lucky winner said she hasn’t made extensive plans for her winnings, but added that she hopes to purchase a garden shed and use a portion of the money to help a friend who is struggling.

The winning ticket was sold at the Royal Farms store located at 8551 Fort Smallwood Road in Pasadena, which earns a $1,000 bonus from the Lottery.

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