Jan. 11 (UPI) —<\/span> A Maryland man said a store’s lottery vending machine was out of $10 scratch-off tickets, leading him to purchase the $5 ticket that earned him a $50,000 prize.<\/p>\n The Emmitsburg man told Maryland Lottery officials he went to Jubilee Foods in Emmitsburg to cash in a $5 prize from a scratch-off ticket, and while at the store he decided to pick up a $10 ticket from the store’s lottery vending machine.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n The man said he prefers to play $10 scratch-offs, but he discovered the machine was sold out of all tickets in that price range, so he turned his attention to the $5 tickets.<\/p>\n “I decided to pick the first one I looked at,” the player recalled.<\/p>\n The man said he took the ticket, a $5 Lucky game, home and “threw it on the counter and told my wife, ‘It’s yours.'”<\/p>\n The man’s wife came downstairs a short time later and asked him to double check the ticket, which turned out to be a $50,000 winner.<\/p>\n “It’s amazing,” the husband said. “I never win anything. It shocked me!”<\/p>\n The couple said they plan to use their winnings to make some home improvements.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Emmitsburg, Md., man said a lottery vending machine’s lack of $10 scratch-off tickets led to he and his wife winning $50,000 from a $5 ticket. File Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI | License Photo Jan. 11 (UPI) — A Maryland man said a store’s lottery vending machine was out of $10 scratch-off tickets, leading him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":745583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nAn Emmitsburg, Md., man said a lottery vending machine’s lack of $10 scratch-off tickets led to he and his wife winning $50,000 from a $5 ticket. File Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n\n