Couple thanks ‘manifestation’ for big Powerball win in Maryland. ‘Took me by surprise’
A lucky couple thanks “manifestation” for their big Powerball win in Maryland, lottery officials said.
Now, the husband and wife have $50,000 in prize money.
Initially, they forgot to pick up a Powerball ticket during their weekly stop at a store in Mechanicsville, the Maryland Lottery said in a Sept. 22 news release.
“She told me to make that U-turn,” the husband told lottery officials.
The couple ended up spending $10 on a Powerball ticket, which gave them “five lines of numbers,” lottery officials said.
They won the third-tier prize of $50,000 on the fifth line.
“If we would have bought a $6, $8 ticket or anything less, we wouldn’t have gotten that last line,” the wife said.
A $2 Powerball game gives players five numbers between 1 and 69 to select for white balls and then one number between 1 and 26 for the red Powerball.
The 48-year-old woman, who wears a lucky alligator tooth necklace, told lottery officials she believes in “the power of manifesting wins.”
“I try to manifest a win all the time, but even this win took me by surprise,” she said.
Mechanicsville is about 80 miles south of Baltimore.
This story was originally published September 22, 2023 at 3:17 PM with the headline "Couple thanks ‘manifestation’ for big Powerball win in Maryland. ‘Took me by surprise’."
