$1M Lottery Ticket Sold At Jersey Shore Store

A $1 million New Jersey lottery ticket was sold at a Jersey Shore store, officials announced Monday.

The winning numbers for the Friday, March 31, drawing were: 17, 24, 27, 32 and 58. The Gold Mega Ball was 10, and the Megaplier Multiplier was 03.

The $1 million dollar ticket was purchased at Long Branch Convenience, 532 Broadway, Long Branch, in Monmouth County.

New Jersey Lottery Executive Director Carole Hedinger announced that an Arkansas State Lottery ticket-holder won the $174 million Mega Millions jackpot from the Friday drawing.

Three New Jersey Lottery ticket holders won $5,000 each for matching the four out of five white balls and the Gold Mega Ball. Those tickets were purchased at the following locations:

• Middlesex County: Pick It Deli Square, 1320 Englishtown Road, Old Bridge
• Monmouth County: Country Farm, 84 Main St., Farmingdale
• Union County: Park Avenue Exxon, 1951 East Edgar Road, Linden

If those tickets had been purchased with the Megaplier option, it would have multiplied the prizes to $15,000.

In addition, 37 New Jersey Lottery players matched four of the five white balls making each ticket worth $500. Two of those tickets were purchased with the Megaplier option, multiplying the prize to $1,500.

Moreover, 106,502 other New Jersey players took home $191,219 in prizes ranging from $1 to $150, according to Hedinger.

“Congratulations to the lottery winners and to the retailers that sold all of those winning tickets,” said Hedinger. “For selling the winning tickets, the retailers have become many more Lottery ‘lucky locations’ overnight.”

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