Woman Wins $100,000 Lottery Prize Using Numbers from Her Car’s Odometer

‘I was shook! I ran out of the store and went straight to my car to call my dad,’ she said.

A Maryland Lottery player recently got her big break with a little help from an unlikely source.

After finding smaller successes with the game Pick 4 — including a $5,000 prize — a woman from Fort Washington “decided to try her hand” at its counterpart, Pick 5, and bought two tickets, lottery officials said on Thursday, April 3.

Adopting a successful strategy that brought her luck in Pick 4, the woman, who chose to remain anonymous, picked the last five digits of the odometer on her car…

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