1Upper Marlboro man hits $150K Pick 5 jackpot after acting on wife’s advice

Upper Marlboro, MD — A 35-year Maryland Lottery player is celebrating a $150,000 win after acting on a hunch — and a timely suggestion from his wife — that led him to play a single set of numbers three times in the Pick 5 game.

The longtime player claimed his prize on October 31 at Lottery headquarters in Baltimore, revealing that the winning combination — 1, 3, 6, 0, 5 — came to him unexpectedly while doing yard work. He recalled that the numbers came to mind while cutting his neighbor’s grass and stuck with him throughout the day. Once home, his wife encouraged him to play them.

Instead of buying just one ticket, he entered the same number combination into three separate Pick 5 plays. Each ticket hit the exac

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