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3 Winning Lottery Tickets Sold In 3 Monmouth County Towns

Here's where they were sold. The Mega Millions jackpot has climbed to $470 million.

Three lottery tickets totalling more than $400,000 were sold at three different stores in Monmouth County this week.

A Monmouth Beach liquor store sold a $387,391 Jersey Cash 5 jackpot lottery ticket last week, the state lottery announced Tuesday. The store that sold the winning ticket from the Friday, Oct. 5 drawing is Monmouth Beach Supermarket & Liquors at 73 Riverdale Avenue in Monmouth Beach.

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Also, there was one New Jersey Lottery ticket sold that matched four of the five white balls and the Powerball drawn for the Saturday drawing, winning the $50,000 third-tier prize. If that ticket had been purchased with Power Play, it would have multiplied the prize to $150,000.

The winning ticket from Saturday night’s drawing was sold at Sungate Mini Mart, 427 Prospect St., Long Branch in Monmouth County.

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The winning numbers for the Saturday were: 01, 22, 27, 53 and 67. The Red Power Ball number was 15. The Multiplier number was 03. The Powerball jackpot rolls to $282,000,000 for the next drawing to be held Wednesday at 10:59 p.m.

Meanwhile, the Mega Millions jackpot has climbed to $470 million, the sixth highest Mega Millions jackpot in history. In New Jersey, there were three third-tier prize-winning tickets sold for the Friday drawing that matched four of the five white balls and the Gold Mega Ball drawn, winning the $10,000 prize. Those tickets were purchased at the following locations:

  • Monmouth County: Shoprite #637, 1801 Route 35, Belmar;
  • Somerset County: Basking Ridge Exxon, 305 King George Rd., Basking Ridge; and
  • Union County: Krauszer’s Food Store, 978 St. Georges Ave., Rahway.

If those tickets had been purchased with the Megaplier option, the prizes would be multiplied to $20,000. The winning numbers for the Friday drawing were: 27, 28, 32, 41 and 69. The Gold Mega Ball was 12, and the Megaplier Multiplier was 02.

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