Oct. 16 (UPI) — A Maryland woman bought two identical tickets for a single lottery drawing and wound up winning two $50,000 prizes for a total windfall of $100,000.
The Silver Spring resident Lottery officials she placed a pair of $1 bets on the midday and evening Pick 5 drawings for Sept. 27 using the numbers 62626, the same set of digits she always uses for Pick 5.
The tickets, purchased from State Line Market on Eastern Avenue in Silver Spring, matched the numbers from the evening drawing, earning her two $50,000 prizes…