BALTIMORE, Md. – A Prince George’s County woman had to do some good old scratching to figure out she was a $50,000 winner on the Bonus Bingo X20 2nd Edition scratch-off.
When she first got the ticket, she scratched only the prize check and then scanned it using the MD Lottery app on her phone and received a message “Go to Lottery.” She was confused by the message and she tried entering her ticket into her My Lottery Rewards account as a non-winner, but the ticket was not accepted, as is the case with winning scratch-offs.
“That was strange,” the federal employee recalled saying to herself. She related her story when she claimed the prize Jan. 8 at Lottery headquarters in Baltimore. Confused by not being to enter the ticket into her Rewards account, she decided to get out a scratcher and play the game from the start.
“I went back one by one to see if I missed something. I went very slowly,” she said with a smile…