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.

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

A Hunterdon County lottery player is $342,777 richer after hitting the Jersey Cash 5 jackpot on Saturday, marking the game’s third top-prize win

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

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

However, one ticket sold in New Jersey won a prize of $40,000 for matching four of the five white balls and the gold Mega ball. The New Jersey Lottery said that prize is normally $10,000 but it was boosted to $40,000 because of the 4X multiplier. The lucky ticket was sold at Mike’s Deli on Oak Hill Road in Red Bank, lottery 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.