$50,000 Fast Play Win Nearly Thrown Away

Double checking your tickets is always advisable. A male player from Waldorf in Maryland, USA, nearly made the costly mistake of throwing away a Fast Play Lucky Numbers ticket that had won $50,000. Another seriously misjudged how much she’d won.

The winner has asked to remain anonymous, but we do know he’s 50 years-old and works as a landscaper. He was on his way back home from work when buying a Fast Play lottery ticket from a US fuel gas station in Waldorf.

The Fast Play family of games have only recently been released and this player was already a fan. He purchased a ticket, believed it to be a losing one and then considered putting it in the rubbish bin. Now that would have been a costly error.

Second glance

However, then he saw that there was a bonus game at the bottom of the Fast Play lottery ticket. This offered players a second chance to win something. He then scanned his ticket with the Maryland Lottery’s app while he was sitting in his car.

That’s when his supposedly losing Fast Play ticket suddenly became a winner. The app told him that he had won $50,000. The delighted player then got on the phone to tell his family the fantastic news.

 “I was shaking when I told them," he said. His $50,000 Fast Play windfall will be used to help pay for relocation expenses when he moves into a new property.

How much?

It’s the latest big win on the Fast Play instant games that launched in 2020. One lucky woman won a $50,000 prize with the very first ticket she purchased. Her plan was to buy some ingredients for a crab legs dinner but decided to buy a Fast Play purchase too.

Initially, the woman from Glen Burnie in Maryland, thought that she had won just $50. Then an assistant told her that actually her win was $50,000. The winner was delighted and used her Fast Play winnings to pay off a car that she had recently bought.

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