A Maryland woman who stopped for a snack at a convenience store remembered her father's recently lottery luck at the same business and ended up winning $50,000 from a scratch-off ticket.
"I was in line to pay when I saw the lottery sign, and that's when I remembered," the player recalled. "I decided right then to get a scratch-off, and this was the one that caught my eye."
The woman selected a $50,000 Cash scratch-off ticket and was initially disappointed to find only one winning number.
"I thought there would have been four or five chances to win, but when I scratched the prize under the one match, I wasn't disappointed anymore," she said.
The player initially thought she had won $5,000."I was so excited. I'd never won anything like that much before," she said.
A second look revealed she had actually won the $50,000 top prize.
The winner said her prize money will go toward paying off her college loans.
