Man calls wife, tells her to check lottery website. ‘Somebody won and it was me’
A Maryland man’s trip to the grocery store ending up changing his life.
He bought food for lunch, plus some lottery tickets — including a Cash4Life Quick Pick ticket for $10 — and won $1,000 a week for life, Maryland Lottery officials said in a June 24 news release.
The winner, from Upper Marlboro, didn’t realize his luck until the next day, lottery officials said.
“I played my numbers and scanned the tickets,” he told lottery officials. “I saw the message that said ‘go to Lottery Headquarters’ so I knew it was something big.”
That “something big” was the Cash4Life Quick Pick game’s second-tier prize.
When the lottery player learned of his win, he called his wife.
“(I) told her to check the Lottery’s website, because somebody won and it was me,” he told lottery officials.
His wife responded, “Don’t play with me,” per the release. “He came home and we checked the ticket together and he was right, it was real.”
The man, who opted for a $1 million one-time cash option instead of yearly installments of $52,000, said he’ll invest and pay bills with the winnings, lottery officials said.
Upper Marlboro is about a 35-mile drive south from Baltimore.
This story was originally published June 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM with the headline "Man calls wife, tells her to check lottery website. ‘Somebody won and it was me’."
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