{"id":183860,"date":"2025-10-07T20:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/183860\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T20:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:34:10","slug":"maryland-man-leaves-the-gym-wins-31118-30-lottery-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/183860\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland man leaves the gym, wins $31,118.30 lottery prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 7 (UPI) &#8212; A Maryland man made a quick stop on his way home from the gym and scored a $31,118.30 prize from the Maryland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/lottery\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Lottery\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lottery<\/a>&#8216;s Racetrax virtual horse racing game.<\/p>\n<p>The Calvert County man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdlottery.com\/calvert-county-mans-workout-ends-with-31118-racetrax-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told Maryland Lottery officials<\/a> he had just finished his workout at the gym when he decided to stop at the 7-Eleven on Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Glen_Burnie\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Glen Burnie\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Glen Burnie<\/a> to buy some lottery tickets.\n<\/p>\n<p>The man placed a Superfecta Box bet with the numbers 9, 7, 11 and 12. He scored a $31,118.30 prizr when the numbers came up 7, 9, 11 and 12 in the Aug. 29 race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I almost hit it straight. That would have given me over $200,000,&#8221; the winner said.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who has been using the same number set for years, said his prize money will go toward paying bills and taking a family vacation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 7 (UPI) &#8212; A Maryland man made a quick stop on his way home from the gym&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[14104,81362,8029,3372,66882,3004,101,56,54,55,17658],"class_list":["post-183860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-funny","tag-glen-burnie","tag-horse-racing","tag-lottery","tag-odd","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}