Jan. 9 (UPI) — An 18-year-old Maryland woman put her beginner’s luck to the test and won a $30,000 prize from her first-ever scratch-off lottery ticket.
The Germantown resident told Maryland Lottery officials she had never played a scratch-off lottery ticket before revealing the $30,000 prize from a Peppermint Payout game.
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The ticket was one of a small handful she had been gifted by her parents.
“We gave them to her as a stocking stuffer,” her father told officials.
The woman said she won prizes of $1 and $2 from two other tickets in her stocking.
She said scratching off the $30,000 prize was a “shocking and weird feeling.”
“It was surreal,” she said.
