When a Maryland woman buys her lottery tickets, she usually uses a personal set of numbers. Recently, though, she decided to change things up and let the machine do the number picking for the Sept. 25 Powerball Double Play drawing, Maryland Lottery officials said in a Sept. 30 news release.

A woman, inspired by her dad to play the lottery, “couldn’t stop laughing” after learning of her prize, Maryland officials said. The woman started playing lottery games about a year ago because her father would often play during her childhood, according to a Sept. 24 news release from the Maryland Lottery.

A woman in Frederick, Maryland, was gifted a lottery ticket by her mother and ended up winning a $50,000 prize - and now plans to use the money to pay off her college loan debt.

A woman from Maryland won a huge $50,000 prize after her mother gifted her a lottery ticket in a bid to fund her taking an early retirement with a win