Woman Wins $540K from Multi-Match Jackpot

The Frederick County resident was immediately surprised by the discovery, realizing that she had won $540,000 from the Multi-Match game, turning her $2 ticket into a potentially life-altering amount.

Lottery Routine Turns into Six-Figure Win for One Maryland Resident

Barnwell has been a consistent lottery player over the years, scooping up multiple of these Multi-Match lottery tickets at a time, as was the case when she discovered she had won. Her break came in mid-June when she slowly and incredulously realized that she had indeed won a six-figure sum while rifling through the tickets one evening.

“I looked at it. I looked at it and I kept looking at it. I couldn’t believe it. It was astonishing,” she said hardly believing her stroke of good luck. Barnwell, a retail worker was overwhelmed with joy, and she hurried to share the news with her husband who was asleep when the Mrs discovered that they had landed a small fortune.

The winning ticket was bought at Mt. Airy Exxon at 4400 Mill Bottom Road in Frederick County, Maryland, which has resulted in a $1,000 bonus for the shop for having sold the winning ticket. Jackpots have been quite frequent all over the United States.

Long Odds High Hopes to Become a Lottery Winner

Lottery jackpots ranging from six figures to life-altering sums have been frequently paid out across the nation, with lottery wins an indelible part of the daily news cycle.

Although the odds of winning a jackpot are fairly small, and consistency does help, most of the stories you hear about are completely random, and the winners have won through no particular action of their own – other than playing, oftentimes for years.

For example, a man from Austin, Texas, played the state lottery and turned in a $29 million win based on a mid-June draw. The winner intends to retire with their winnings and enjoy life. The person has also opted for a lump sum payment on his winning, taking 16,643,761.41 before tax.

Lottery stories have been refreshing and have had mostly palliative qualities in people’s lives. For example, earlier this month, we reported that a woman had won $300,000 from the lottery only a day after losing her job playing a $10 Gold Rush scratch-off ticket, which is very well amounting to several years of her pay.

A player in Virginia also scooped a $500,000 prize money from the Magnificent 7s game, making for yet another celebrated story about lottery jackpots and great wins.