Prince George's County man wins $5 million Hyattsville scratch-off prize

A Hyattsville 7-Eleven turned a routine lottery stop into a $5 million payday for Maurice Williams, a Washington, D.C., school bus driver who had already been back to the counter once to cash a smaller win on the same game. Williams claimed the top prize on May 5 after buying the $50 $5,000,000 LUXE scratch-off at 7206 Sheriff Road in Prince George’s County.

Williams had stopped in to collect a $50 prize from the same game, then used that money to buy another ticket. He scanned the new ticket in his car and realized he had hit the game’s first $5 million top prize. The winning number was 59, which matched his age, and he had just turned 59.

The Maryland Lottery identified Williams as the winner and said he called his mother first after the win. He later told lottery officials he spent a restless night after the ticket came up big and plans to buy his mother a house and save the rest. For the store that sold the ticket, the jackpot also brought a smaller but immediate reward: a $5,000 bonus paid to the retailer.

The prize came from a game that launched on Feb. 6, 2026, at $50 a ticket with 50 chances to win and three $5 million top prizes. After Williams claimed his prize, two top prizes remained unclaimed. The latest prize table still listed two $5 million prizes, nine $200,000 prizes and 10 $50,000 prizes among the remaining awards.

The Hyattsville win stood as the largest Maryland Lottery prize of the week of May 4 to 10, a stretch in which the state paid out more than $35.2 million in prizes statewide and 24 tickets won at least $10,000. For Prince George’s County, the jackpot highlights how the lottery economy runs through neighborhood retailers like the Sheriff Road 7-Eleven, where a single scratch-off sale can send a new millionaire home and a bonus back to the store counter.