Wife dreams she won lottery, then has husband buy a ticket. Prize leaves him ‘shaking’

A man in Maryland was left stunned after listening to his wife’s advice about buying a lottery ticket, officials said.

The restaurant employee’s wife was overseas when she had a dream the two won “a lot of money” playing the lottery, according to a Feb. 29 news release by the Maryland Lottery.

That’s when she told him to go buy a ticket, officials said.

The Glen Burnie man, who plays Powerball and Mega Millions when the jackpot catches his eye, drove to a 7-Eleven in Pasadena and bought a $10 Fast Play Mega Multiplier ticket, officials said.

“It wasn’t a Powerball or Mega Millions night, those are the games I first thought to play,” the man told lottery officials. “But then, I saw the Mega Multiplier ticket.”

Once the man “saw the matching numbers” on his ticket, his “legs started shaking,” officials said.

He had won $100,000.

“I thought about keeping it from my wife until she returns next week, but I couldn’t. Our phone call that night was a very happy one,” he told officials.

The man said he’s previously won a few $500 lottery prizes over the years.

“I thought I was pretty lucky, I never really expected to win more than that,” he told lottery officials.

The man won the fourth top prize in the game, officials said. There are 26 $100,000 prizes remaining as of Feb. 29.

Pasadena is about 20 miles south of Baltimore.

This story was originally published February 29, 2024 at 3:38 PM with the headline "Wife dreams she won lottery, then has husband buy a ticket. Prize leaves him ‘shaking’."