Stranger's help earns Md. visitor a $37,951 lottery prize

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA Texas woman visiting Maryland let a stranger talk her into playing the lottery's Racetrax game for the first time, and she won thirty-seven thousand nine hundred fifty-one dollars, UPI reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA stranger. Told her to gamble. And it worked.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe said he had a good feeling, and he helped her fill out the form.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorShe bet fifty cents on twenty races, seventy dollars in all.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSeventy dollars. Fifty cents a race, and she never checked a single one.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorShe didn't know she'd won until she got home to Texas.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe ticket sat in her purse until a friend in Baltimore phoned and asked if she'd checked it.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHer friend is the hero. Without that call, thirty-seven thousand dollars goes through the wash in a pair of scrubs.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo how does a person win by accident, in a state she's leaving, on a game she's never played?

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe stranger is a scout.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHe hangs around the Quick Mart looking for people with pure luck and no plans, and the horses are in on it.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe had a good feeling, and she let him fill out the form. That's the most expensive thing anyone's ever done for free.