Stop At Giant Store For Pain Reliever Brings $50K Relief

GLEN BURNIE, MD — His wife’s need to restock her supply of pain reliever put a Glen Burnie man in the right place at the right time to pick up both her medicine and a $50,000-winning scratch-off game.

When the pair were shopping his wife mentioned running out of her pain reliever, but the item was not on sale. They also lacked a coupon so they skipped the purchase. They later found a Giant grocery coupon for the pain reliever, which the federal employee used at the store in Glen Burnie.

While he was making the purchase, he also bought several scratch-off tickets for $10 ticket, two $2 games and one $5 instant ticket and scratched them all off at the store. He told Maryland Lottery officials he was stunned when the $5 Holiday Cash game revealed a $50,000 prize.

“I’m staring at it and I put it on the [ticket checker] machine,” he said in a lottery news release.

The message confirming his $50,000 win didn’t convince him, so the scratch-off fan took the top-prize winning ticket to his regular Lottery retailer. That store confirmed his win and he left with a paper printout documenting his prize.

The couple will share the top-secret win with family and friends by quietly making their holiday gifts nicer. They also plan to give their dog and other family pets extra special holiday treats, a press release says. The Anne Arundel County Giant located at 7940 Crain Highway will get a $500 bonus from the Lottery for selling the top-prize scratch-off in the game.

Holiday Cash still has three unclaimed top prizes remaining along with thousands of other prizes of $5 and up. Enter non-winning holiday scratch-offs into the Holiday Cash & Dash second-chance promotion. Players can try to win a trip to Chicago for a 90-second warehouse dash, cash prizes ranging from $1,000 to $25,000 or $300 in scratch-offs. Enter the promotion through My Lottery Rewards.

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