Powerball player forgets ticket in glove box — then discovers big win weeks later
A man found his forgotten Powerball ticket in his glove box and won a big prize in Maryland.
Now he’s $50,000 richer.
He bought the ticket for the March 29 drawing at a Royal Farms convenience store in Princess Anne, the Maryland Lottery said in an April 25 news release.
The lottery player put it in his glove compartment and forgot about it.
He remembered to bring it into a store to get checked weeks later when he went to buy more lottery tickets, lottery officials said.
That’s when he learned he had matched four white balls and the red Powerball and won the third-tier prize of $50,000, the lottery office said.
The state employee plans to use his winnings to pay bills.
Princess Anne is about a 135-mile drive southeast from Baltimore.