A Jersey Cash 5 lottery ticket worth $342,777 was sold for Saturday’s drawing at a QuickChek in Hunterdon County. The winning ticket was sold at the store on Route 31 in the Ringoes section of East Amwell, the New Jersey Lottery said.

A NJ Lottery player in Hunterdon County won $342,777 in the Saturday, July 19, Jersey Cash 5 drawing. The ticket was purchased at Quick Chek #63 in the Ringoes section of East Amwell Township, 410 Route 31 South. The winning numbers were 13, 23, 26, 35 and 36. The XTRA was 2 and the Bullseye was 13.

A NJ Lottery player in Middlesex County won $160,000 in the Tuesday, July 15, Jersey Cash 5 drawing. The ticket was purchased at South River Convenience in South River, 58 Jackson St. The winning numbers were 7, 11, 20, 30 and 43. The XTRA was 2 and the Bullseye was 11.

TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey Lottery sales totaled $3.3 billion for the fiscal year ending Sunday, a decline of $288 million or 7.9 percent from the previous

Turns out, the teacher won “much more than some gas money,” lottery officials said. After scratching two tickets, the teacher scratched a third: a $10 The Shore Thing ticket, lottery officials said. The player soon learned they had won the game’s top prize of $500,000.

A teacher let a lottery-ticket gift sit in their car for weeks before learning it was a $500,000 winner, per a press release from the New Jersey Lottery

The lucky teacher, who received several scratch-offs from grateful parents, had left the tickets in their car, forgotten until a recent July morning.

It started as a thank you. It ended in a half-million-dollar lottery prize for one unsuspecting New Jersey teacher.

The scratch-offs sat in the teacher’s car until they played one of them while getting gas, hoping they had won some cash to fill up the car, officials said.

Two scratch-off lottery players in Bergen County just struck gold. A $1,000,000 Ultimate Spectacular ticket that won $10,000 was sold at Valero Food Mart on Ramapo Valley Road in Oakland, the New Jersey Lottery said.