A Shaw's Sells 11 $100K-Winning Lottery Tickets In One Day

RANDOLPH, MA — A Shaw's in Randolph Plaza made history Sunday, selling 11 $100,000-winning Mass Cash tickets. A Groton convenience store sold a twelfth winning ticket, making it a dozen winning Mass Cash tickets sold in one day.

It is unknown who the winner or winners are, but in the case of the Randolph tickets, a Massachusetts State Lottery official told Patch "in most cases multiple winning tickets at the same location does tend to be the same person."

It's a major win for Shaw's regardless of how many winners there are. The store gets a 1 percent bonus of winning lottery tickets, meaning $11,000 is coming its way.

According to lottery records, since the lottery started noting what city or town winning tickets were sold in 1998, there have never been 11 winning tickets sold in one day at one location.

Sixteen were sold in Braintree over a one-month span in 2014, nine on Feb. 8 and seven on March 7. There were 11 and 13 winners sold across the state those days, respectively.

Since 1998 there has been only one instance of 12 winning tickets being sold across the state in one day - March 7, 2014, the day Braintree sold seven.

There was an instance of 11 winning tickets sold across several locations on Oct. 3, 2012.

A record 34 winning Mass Cash tickets were sold on Oct. 19, 1993.

There have been 25 instances of a community selling five or more winning tickets since 1998. On June 14, 2002, Jamaica Plain and Somerville each sold five winners, while Brockton sold one that day to get to 1.

Even Randolph has seen similar success, when five winning tickets were sold here on March 8, 2005.

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