The Maryland woman soon realized her prize was much greater than she initially thought, lottery officials said.

Two winning lottery tickets, each worth thousands of dollars, were sold in the New York area on Tuesday. Lottery officials said one winning ticket was sold at a Brooklyn bodega on Rogers Avenue, and the other was sold at a Speedway on Fairview Avenue in Hudson.

Randall Smith was sitting in his car when he won a $100,000 top prize from a Money Tree ticket, the Virginia Lottery said in a Jan. 6 news release. “I broke down, and I lost it!” Smith told lottery officials.