Lotto Couple Predicted Their Own Jackpot Win

A couple scooped a massive lottery jackpot after predicting that a big win was in store for them.

The husband-and-wife team of Lottery players pose with their winning check, undated. The wife said ‘There was something calling me to go to the Food Lion’ ‘It was calling my name’. (Maryland Lottery/Newsflash)

The pair told how they were ‘called’ to a particular store where they bought their USD 34,683 (GBP 28,823) winning ticket in the Maryland Lottery’s Gold Fish.

The pair – a chef and his wife from the community of White Plains, Charles County, Maryland State, USA – have withheld their names and are known only as Power Couple.

The wife told how in the weeks leading up to their win they knew they were in line for a fortune in February.

Then – as she was filling their truck with petrol – she saw a Food Lion grocery store and knew she had to buy some tickets.

She said in a statement obtained by Newsflash from Maryland Lottery: “There was something calling me to go to the Food Lion. It was calling my name.”

Guided by the sign she then went to the store and bought a ticket.

But having realised that it might be a winner later on, she scanned the ticket using the Lottery app on the phone and was stunned to receive an odd message.

She said: “When I read it, I said, ‘Are my eyes deceiving me?’ I took it to another store and asked the clerk to scan it.

Piture shows the Food in Waldorf, Maryland, USA, undated. The wife of a husband-and-wife team of Lottery players said ‘There was something calling me to go to the Food Lion’ ‘It was calling my name’. (Google Maps/Newsflash)

“He did and then he did a double-take. He said, ‘You hit the jackpot!’ It was so exciting!”

The lucky woman then rushed home and shared the good news with her husband before they went to lottery headquarters to collect their prize.

The couple who owns a food truck business claimed that the win came at a wonderful time as they were in the process of moving.

They also added that the money would come in handy to pay off the loan on their truck along with some other bills and said: “This was heaven sent. It was our time.”

Lottery officials confirmed that the lucky retailed will be awarded a USD 346.86 (GBP 288.33) bonus for selling a winning ticket of USD 20,000 {GBP 16,625) or more.

They added: “The bonus is equal to one percent of the prize.

“The Gold Fish game went on sale in September 2022, and still has 17 progressive jackpots remaining, along with more than one million prizes ranging from USD 2 [GBP 1.66] to USD 1,000 [GBP 831.15].

“The progressive jackpot won by ‘Power Couple’ is the third one in the game.”