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BALTIMORE -- A Baltimore man who wanted a break from Sunday's NFL playoff games decided to dig up some old lottery tickets -- and one of them happened to be worth $250,000.
Maryland Lottery officials said the man bought the lucky Mega Millions ticket in August just before he left for a vacation.
"I was watching the playoff game (Sunday) and happened to go into my dresser drawer," said the man, whose name wasn't released by the Lottery. "I figured they were expired."
He took the tickets to a nearby store and scanned them. After learning that one of the tickets was a $2 winner, he scanned another and was given notice by the machine that he should take the ticket to Lottery headquarters.
He claimed the second-tier prize Monday. He missed winning the Mega Millions jackpot by one number.
The winner said he'd put the money in the bank and share some of it with his 16-year-old daughter.
The ticket was purchased at Royal Farms on Washington Boulevard.
Mega Millions drawings air on WBAL-TV 11 at 11:22 p.m. on Tuesday and Friday.
Maryland Lottery officials said the man bought the lucky Mega Millions ticket in August just before he left for a vacation.
"I was watching the playoff game (Sunday) and happened to go into my dresser drawer," said the man, whose name wasn't released by the Lottery. "I figured they were expired."
He took the tickets to a nearby store and scanned them. After learning that one of the tickets was a $2 winner, he scanned another and was given notice by the machine that he should take the ticket to Lottery headquarters.
He claimed the second-tier prize Monday. He missed winning the Mega Millions jackpot by one number.
The winner said he'd put the money in the bank and share some of it with his 16-year-old daughter.
The ticket was purchased at Royal Farms on Washington Boulevard.
Mega Millions drawings air on WBAL-TV 11 at 11:22 p.m. on Tuesday and Friday.
