A Maryland woman bought a $20 lottery ticket instead of two and won $50,000. Photo: File
Maryland, USA: An interesting incident happened in America when a woman bought an expensive lottery ticket without wanting to and won a prize of 50 thousand dollars.
A Maryland woman wanted to buy a $2 lottery ticket from a vending machine, but mistakenly bought a $20 ticket. The woman regretted that this money might be wasted. However, when the winning numbers were scratched off the ticket, it was revealed that she had won $50,000.
Thus a wrong ticket cost her the correct amount. The 43-year-old woman, giving details, said she was a resident of Salisbury and had bought a lottery ticket from an automated machine. She wanted a $2 ticket but mistakenly sent a $20 ticket. He said that this machine was installed in a store of Royal Farm.
As soon as she scratched the ticket, she was ecstatic that she had won a total of $50,000. However, she has not yet decided how she will spend such a large amount of money.