The new website includes many enhanced features to provide you, our valued players, with a broad spectrum of information along with a state-of-the-art interactive experience to make your gaming experience more enjoyable.

Some of the sites new features include:  full integration with the Lottery’s blog Sn@pshots Lottery News; improved navigation; winning numbers quick view straight from the homepage; multiple RSS feed choices; complete social integration with Facebook and Twitter, as well as other social networks; historical numbers search and archive; and an enhanced prizes-remaining page for scratch-off tickets. In addition, the site will also debut MDLotteryTV providing original video content straight from the Lottery’s YouTube channel.

“This site is the result of many months of research, planning and hard work,” said Stephen Martino, director of the Maryland Lottery. “The new features reflect feedback that we have received from our players to make their website experience more enjoyable.”

The Maryland Lottery, which serves as the regulatory agency for Maryland’s slots program, also launched slots.mdlottery.com today. The site will contain information on the recently opened Hollywood Casino Perryville and updates on progress of the state’s slots initiatives. Said Martino, “Both sites will evolve so that we can provide the most up-to-date information in a format that is user-friendly and easily navigable.”

For two days, a Baltimore County woman had a lucky scratch-off ticket in her purse and didn’t know it.  During the recent Thanksgiving holiday weekend, she purchased four scratch-off tickets, one of which was the Bingo Times 10 scratch-off.  Instead of scratching the entire ticket, she scratched only the barcode portion and checked it at a local retailer.  The message advised to visit Lottery headquarters and the experienced player knew it was more than $500.   She immediately put the ticket in her purse and forgot about it for a few days. Then while she was getting her car worked on, she scratched the rest of the ticket and discovered that she had won a $50,000 cash prize.  “I screamed in silence when I found out how much I won,” she said.  After discovering her fortune, she went to Lottery headquarters to claim her prize.

The 37-year-old nursing home worker did not tell anyone at the time but plans on immediately telling her mother of her newfound fortune.  She also plans on sharing the news with other family members, do some holiday shopping and pay for some work on her home.  The winning ticket was purchased at Woodmoor Shell on 7001 Liberty Road in Baltimore.



UPDATE: Monday, December 6 – We are experiencing technical difficulties as we attempt to launch the new website. We hope to have these resolved as soon as possible.

UPDATE: Friday, December 3 – Comments and questions are now closed on this blog. We looked forward to hearing from you as we launch our new website.

We are proud to announce that on Monday, December 6th we will be launching the ALL NEW mdlottery.com.

The new and improved website will include a lot of great new features including full integration with our blog Sn@pshots Lottery News to become a one stop destination for everything Maryland Lottery related.

We have received a lot of feedback over the past year from our players on what they want to see with a new website and we’re proud to bring some of those to you as the site launches.  Some of those features include:

• Improved navigational experience
• Winning numbers quick view
• Multiple RSS feed choices
• Complete social integration with Facebook, Twitter and more
• Historical numbers search and archive
• Enhanced scratch-off prizes remaining
• More video including the launch of MDLotteryTV, where you can find all of your favorite videos straight from our YouTube channel
• AND MORE!!!

It is a really exciting announcement for us and we hope you are as excited to see and use the ALL NEW mdlottery.com as we are to bring it to you. We look forward to receiving your feedback and continuing to bring you enhanced features down the road to make your gaming experience more enjoyable.

Michael Hamilton, of Windsor Mill, got his holiday season started with a bang last week, with a $50,000 win.  The 27-year-old truck driver and fan of Maryland Lottery instant games stopped by Lottery Headquarters to pick up the top prize he won playing the Super Bonus Crossword scratch-off game.

Michael picked out the winner on Tuesday night at the 7-11 at 7410 Windsor Mill Road in Baltimore on his way home from work.  He chose the ticket after having had luck with it in recent weeks.  “I bought two, one for me and one for my wife,” Michael told officials.  “We scratched them together and I knew right away that I’d won.”  He just wasn’t sure as to how much he’d won, “As I kept seeing more words, we got more and more excited.”

There was lots of celebrating but little sleep in the Hamilton household that night.  It took them a while to believe it was true and then to share the news with friends and family.  “No one believed us, everyone thought we were joking.”  Michael and his wife plan to make this Christmas especially memorable for their family.  “We’re going to share this happiness with everyone we love.”

Working on Thanksgiving Day is a sacrifice that millions of Americans make every year (another thing for the rest of us to be thankful for), but for a Forestville man, being away from home on that special day was made a bit easier by a $50,000 win.  A quick Lottery purchase on the way to work and a quick look at the winning numbers online made Thanksgiving 2010 a memorable one.

Today’s winner, a concierge at a Washington, D.C. hotel, is a big Bonus Match 5 fan, playing several times a week.  On Thanksgiving morning he stopped by Lee’s Minimarket at 5400 Marlboro Pike in District Heights to get his ticket on the way to work.  The holiday was a busy time at the hotel and his work kept him occupied well into the evening.  He did find time, however, to check the winning Bonus Match 5 numbers on the Lottery’s webpage.  As number after number matched his ticket, the winner said, “I absolutely could not believe my eyes.”

He called home with the news but still had a few hours on his shift.  The time, he tells us, seemed to drag a bit as he looked forward to getting home to celebrate the holiday and the big win with his family.  The $50,000 win, taxes-paid due to a special promotion which was drawing to a close, will help with school bills and making this Christmas extra special for his daughter.

With over $2,000,000 in prizes, you never know when it’s going to snow in a retailer near you.  Plus, you can still win Pick 3 if your numbers hit.  Never played Pick 3? Learn how to play here.  A $1.00 bet can win up to $500.  Best of all, you can play Pick 3 twice a day, seven days a week!

With Cinema Cash you can win up to $30,000 instantly or enter to win great second chance prizes including a MGM movie premier experience, home theater package or movie tickets for a year! To enter the second chance contest, mail-in two non-winning Maryland Lottery Cinema Cash scratch-off tickets with your name, address, phone and e-mail address.

For more information on Cinema Cash visit, www.mdlottery.com/cinemacash.

Cinema Cash ($3) – 81% sold
Top Prize – $30,000; 2 remain
5 $3,000 prizes remain
5 $1,000 prizes remain
2nd Chance Contest including an all expenses paid trip to a movie premier destination of your choice, a home theater packages or movie tickets for a year!

YULE Love Our Holiday Scratch-Offs!

Winter Riches ($10) – 31% sold
Top Prize – $100,000; 3 remain
9 $10,000 prizes
26 $1,000 prizes

Winter Green ($3) – 27% sold
Top Prize – $30,000; 4 remain
5 $1,000 prizes remain
This scratch-n-sniff scratch-off makes a great gift.

Holiday Treasures ($2) – 31% sold
Top Prizes – $10,000; 4 remain
5 $5,000 prizes
For those art collectors out there, this ticket features three different
Santa Claus scenes painted by R.J. McDonald.

Happy Holidays ($1) – 14% sold
Top Prize $1,000; 25 remain
This game is designed to be used as a holiday gift as it has a gift tag “to” and “from” area right on the ticket.

This was my first time to see the Ravens play in Baltimore. The seats were very good at around the 20-yard line on the visiting teams side of the field. A parking pass was included and the access in and out of the stadium was easy to navigate.

I must admit that the atmosphere was very good as about 99% of the people were in their purple and black and were into the game. It was refreshing to see such support of the home town team.

I myself am a native of Washington, DC and have been a fan of the “other team” down I-95. That’s the way it is and will always be that way. But I will root for the Ravens as my AFC favorites.

Overall the weather was good that day and the fans were fantastic. It was very enjoyable. Thank you Maryland Lottery.

John Clark
Montgomery Village, MD

John won two (2) club level tickets to see the Ravens vs. Bills on October 24.