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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!

The exterior of the gas station.
The exterior of the gas station. (Google Earth)

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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