Lottery player stops for candy at gas station — but big Maryland win was even sweeter
A lottery player stopped for candy and gas, and he ended up with a big prize in Maryland.
The Washington, D.C., man went to a Shell in Hyattsville, the Maryland Lottery said in a March 5 news release.
He was also craving some candy, so he left his car running and went into the store, lottery officials.
While in there, he noticed a line of people waiting to buy lottery tickets.
He went back outside to check on his running car and “that’s when I noticed a license tag with the numbers, 7837, so I added a 7 in the middle and went back to play Pick 5 with those numbers,” he told lottery officials.
He spent $2 for two tickets, lottery officials said.
He checked his tickets a week later and realized his Pick 5 tickets matched the winning numbers.
“I was looking at the website thinking those numbers looked familiar,” he told lottery officials.
He won $50,000 on each ticket, making his big win worth $100,000.
Now he has plans to invest the prize money, and he says he may start a small business.
Hyattsville is about a 35-mile drive southwest from Baltimore.
This story was originally published March 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM with the headline "Lottery player stops for candy at gas station — but big Maryland win was even sweeter."
