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MA Store Sells 6 $100K Lottery Tickets In One Day

The wins at J&J Variety store account for more than half of all $100,000 wins this week in Massachusetts.

WEST BOYLSTON, MA — A local store sold six winning lottery tickets worth six figures each on Thursday, according to the state lottery.

J&J Variety, 360 West Boylston St., West Boylston, sold the six $100,000 winning Mass Cash tickets on Thursday, according to the state's daily list of winners.

The probability of winning a single $100,000 Mass Cash prize is about 1 in 324,632, according to the state lottery. That's actually better than the chance of getting hit by lightning, which is "less than 1 in 1 million," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Those six jackpots were among only eight $100,000 winning tickets sold in the state between Thursday and Friday — and the biggest prizes won on Thursday.

According to the daily lottery database, there have only been 12 winning tickets sold since Sunday with prizes greater than $100,000. All were in that amount, except for a single $650,000 winner sold at ST's General Store in Uxbridge on Tuesday.

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Believe it or not, there are some stores in the state that are luckier than J&J Variety — if you go by the dollar amount. Here are the locations of the top lottery wins in Massachusetts over the last decade.

  • Aug. 23, 2017 — $758.7 million, Pride Station & Store, Chicopee
  • July 2, 2004 — $294 million Powers Wine Co., Lowell
  • Dec. 11, 2013 — $61.45 million Appletown, Sterling
  • Dec. 12, 2012 — $50 million Lexington Shell
  • Aug. 19, 2011 — $32 million Tedeschi #407, Dorchester
  • Oct. 16, 2012 — $30.5 million AM/PM Convenience, Hyannis
  • June 8, 2011 — $25.6 million Joe's Market, Fall River
  • March 10, 2012 — $13.82 million Main St Variety, Wakefield
  • March 11, 2017 — $11.34 million Main Street Getty, Clinton

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