Hospital Tech Shares Her Winning Powerball Play Strategy

Silver Spring, MD —  A Montgomery County woman who won $50,000 in the May 18 Powerball drawing told Maryland Lottery officials her system for playing the game makes that prize a down payment on her future jackpot win.

The confident player, who works as a CT scan technician, said her win on a quick-pick ticket bought at 7-Eleven in Kensington shows that her system works.

“I have a set of numbers that I use for Mega Millions, Powerball and Cash4Life,” said the 36-year-old from Silver Spring. “But then, whenever I’m in a store that sells tickets, I pick up a quick-pick ticket for one or two of the games.”

She gathers the tickets she’s collected once a month or so to check them at a Lottery retailer.

“I scanned them last week and saw an unusual message,” she said. “I asked the clerk to check the Powerball ticket and he told me I had to go to the Lottery, that it was too big for him to cash.”

Completely shocked and thrilled, the winner hurried to her car to check the winning numbers on her Maryland Lottery app and experienced “pure excitement,” she said.

“I was speechless,” recalled the wife and mother of two. “I just sat there in my car. I eventually called my husband and my brother to tell them.”

That night, unable to sleep, the winner and her husband discussed how the prize would fit into their lives.

“We’ve both worked hard and have been blessed, and this is one more blessing, one that we’ll never forget.” They plan to eliminate debt with the winnings.