Baltimore City’s “Sleepless Flower Girl” plans to create generational wealth after winning $5 million playing the $5,000,000 Cash scratch-off game.
Baltimore woman’s sick day leads to big payday from $5,000,000 Cash game
A Baltimore City woman’s sick day turned into a huge payday after scratching off a $5,000,000 Cash ticket and revealing the top prize. The federal government employee could not believe her luck after taking a day off work because of a sinus infection.
The nervous, but calm winner chose the anonymous nickname “Sleepless Flower Girl” because of her lack of sleep after the win, and her love for nature. While claiming the prize, she shared the events that led to her becoming Baltimore’s newest multi-millionaire.
On April 10, “Sleepless Flower Girl” was home sick when she decided a smoothie may help her ailments. She headed to the Safeway on Harford Road for ingredients to make her tasty treat. While there, she remembered she had a $120-winning Keno ticket that she needed to cash. With those winnings, “Sleepless Flower Girl” purchased some more tickets including a $50 $5,000,000 Cash scratch-off.
The winner returned home and scanned her tickets on the Lottery app. When she came to the last ticket, she could not believe her eyes.
“I saw the message and the confetti pop up, but I couldn’t tell if it was $5,000 or $5 million,” she said. “I kept scanning it over and over, but I still couldn’t believe it.”
The big winner immediately called her mother who was at work.
“She told me to come home right away,” said the winner’s mother who accompanied her daughter to claim the prize. “I was scared to death.”
“Sleepless Flower Girl” shared a screenshot of the winning message to her mother. When she saw all the zeroes, she told her daughter to scratch the whole ticket.
“I did and I still missed seeing how I won,” she said. “It was like my eyes were playing tricks on me.”
Finally, it registered when she focused and saw that her number matched and there was a whopping $5,000,000 prize below it.
“Sleepless Flower Girl” was so excited about her win that she could not sleep the night before claiming the prize. She was still feeling a bit dazed when she shared with Lottery officials that she plans to buy a house with her winnings and invest some. The mother-of-one son plans to create generational wealth for her family.
The winning ticket was purchased at the Safeway store at 4401 Harford Road in Baltimore City. The retailer will receive a $5,000 bonus from the Lottery for selling the top-prize winning ticket. The $50 ticket still has two $5,000,000 top prizes available, seven $100,000 prizes and thousands of prizes ranging from $100 to $10,000.
