The lucky winner, who chose to remain anonymous, told lottery officials that the only person who knows he won is his wife
NEED TO KNOW
- The Maryland Lottery announced on Monday, Feb. 9 that a man won a $100,000 prize off a $10 Lottery voucher
- The man told the lottery that he initially wasn’t going to make a pit stop, but turned into a 7-Eleven and bought the ticket in a spur-of-the-moment decision
- He is the second person to claim one of the nine $100,000 top prizes available for the 50X the Cash game
A Maryland man ended up winning a big lottery prize thanks to an impromptu decision.
The lucky winner — who chose to remain anonymous — won a $100,000 prize after contemplating whether to buy a ticket while stopped at a traffic light, the Maryland Lottery said in a press release.
“I wasn’t going to stop, but when the light was green, I turned,” the Montgomery County man said on Friday, Feb. 6 while claiming his prize at the Maryland Lottery headquarters in Baltimore…