Woman picks lottery game after reading horoscope — then scores big prize in Maryland
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A horoscope reading led a woman to try a different lottery game in Maryland.
It landed her a $100,000 prize.
The Baltimore woman usually plays Pick 3 or Pick 4 with the same numbers, the Maryland Lottery said in a Feb. 28 news release.
But a horoscope reading changed the woman’s mind, she told lottery officials.
“It was something about inserting something new into your routine, so it seemed like a good chance to do exactly that,” she said.
So instead of buying a Pick 3 or Pick 4 game, she purchased a $10 Fast Play while grocery shopping, lottery officials said.
While still at the store, she glanced at the ticket and saw a matching pair of numbers.
“Everything got very quiet all of a sudden,” she told the lottery office. “The store was pretty busy, but nothing registered with me but that match and the $100,000 underneath.”
She raced home to tell her husband the good news.
Now the couple plan to use the money to pay off some medical bills that had been causing a lot of stress for them, lottery officials said.
“It’ll be nice to go to sleep without these worries keeping us up,” the winner said.
