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South Amboy Gas Station Sells $342,957 Lottery Ticket
The gas station is the 19 Express at 1949 Rt. 35 northbound in South Amboy; so check your pockets if you bought a ticket there recently!

SOUTH AMBOY, NJ — A gas station on Rt. 35 in South Amboy sold a lottery ticket that matched the $1,028,871 Jersey Cash 5 jackpot in Thursday night's drawing, June 20, the New Jersey state lottery announced Friday morning.
The gas station is the 19 Express at 1949 Rt. 35 northbound in South Amboy; so check your pockets if you bought a ticket there recently!
That ticket matched two other tickets sold elsewhere in the state (Paterson and Butler), so they will split the million-dollar jackpot three ways. Each ticket is worth $342,957. The winning numbers were: 09, 12, 16, 32 and 42 and the XTRA number was: 03.
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Those tickets were sold at the following locations:
- Middlesex County: 19 Express, 1949 Route 35, South Amboy;
- Morris County: Quick Chek #162, 1435 Route 23 S., Butler; and
- Passaic County: C-Town Supermarket, 444 20th Ave., Paterson.
Winners have not yet been identified.
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