A lucky Maryland woman inspired and bought a winning lottery ticket

A Maryland woman turned a $50 win on a scratch-off ticket into a $50,000 jackpot with some shrewd purchases, lottery officials said.

After feeling lucky while driving home from dinner, the woman stopped at a liquor store in Delmar to buy scratch-off tickets, the Maryland Lottery said in a Thursday, April 25, news release.

She won $50 on one ticket and used some of the money to buy three more tickets. The first two weren’t winners, but the third hit the grand prize in the “$50,000 Cash” game, lottery officials said.

“I scanned the ticket and the message said to bring (it) to the Lottery,” she told lottery officials. “I knew right away it was a $50,000 win, because the next prize down, I could cash right in the store.”

The woman called her husband, also driving home from dinner in a separate car, to let him know about the big win, the lottery said.