Five-time winner bought all winning tickets at the same retailer
By Kate Northrop
ADELPHI, Md. — An anonymous Maryland player won a Pick 5 top prize of $50,000 for the fifth time this year, having bought every winning ticket at the same store.
The Maryland Lottery saw a familiar face return to headquarters in Baltimore after he completed his fifth Pick 5 prize claim worth $50,000 last week.
In May, a Silver Spring resident showed up at Lottery headquarters to claim a combined $200,000 Pick 5 prize from four top prize-winning tickets, each worth $50,000.
He had been playing the same Pick 5 combination every day since the game began, he told the Lottery. Not only that, but he would always buy multiple tickets with the same five-digit combination.
"I picked the numbers, but they are completely random," the 43-year-old explained. "2, 1, 6, 2, 4 just looked and sounded right to me, so I went with it."
When he saw that his method had finally paid off to the tune of four winning tickets in the May 6 midday drawing, he "immediately dropped to [his] knees to thank God for the blessing."
The Hyattsville Convenience Store on University Boulevard East in Adelphi also won out for selling four winning tickets and received a combined $2,000 bonus commission.
On July 10, his luck returned, but not with the same numbers. This time, he entered a different set of numbers in the evening draw — 9-8-5-5-7 — and won the top prize yet again.
The same store that sold him his first four winning tickets this year also sold him the fifth winning $50,000 Pick 5 ticket, and so they are receiving another bonus commission worth $500.
The winner, who works as an automobile repair specialist, said he has no specific plans for his fifth prize, but he does plan to continue playing his favorite lottery game.
The odds of matching all five numbers in exact order to win the $50,000 top prize in Pick 5 are 1 in 100,000. Drawings take place twice a day at 12:28 pm EST and at 7:56 pm EST.
All winning numbers, prizes, and odds are published on Lottery Post's Maryland Lottery Results page right after each drawing.
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Interesting.......
Whatever works... Congrats!!!!!
With that frequency of hits, Mayland Man obviously knows something that's more than luck or random.
Nota Bene:
He will automatically be under all seeing eyes in the skies +
Fortes Fortuna Juvat
I've always wished Texas would have that game for Texans to play. I'd be all over it.
Talk about lightning striking the same place five times - and y'all think I can't match the powerball number 10 times for a $4 prize in one year 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
wow, nice job, congrats to the lucky guy.
I need his magic for the PB tonight.
He definitely has a system and is seeing a pattern.
i gotta find whoever's head he rubbed for good luck.
Me too, Ohio got it a month after I moved to KY.
This guy created his own large jackpot by betting $4 on the same combo. Doesn't say how many combos he played to get his second win.
I smell a less ambitious Eddie Tipton.
The article makes it sound like he has won 5 separate times which would be impressive when he actually only won twice. After winning $200,000 on the first hit, I am surprised that he only won $50,000 on the second win.
If he wins a third time wonder if they would put in restrictions. Congratulations your system is working
Unless there was something fraudulent about the ticket like tampering with it, he could win every day. I would love to see a lottery try to impose restrictions...lol. The negative publicity would harm the state lottery.