By The newspaper
Mar 28, 2024, 09:28 AM EDT
A store in New York is receiving an increase in visitors looking for a non-tangible product: good luck.
The “Smoke 4 Less” establishment in Newburgh, Orange County, sold not one, but two winning tickets of $1 million and $2 million dollars this week, once again becoming a sensation, having previously in 11 months between 2022 and 2023 of $6 million in Powerball prizes came out there.
Now in 2024 the first prize came on Monday, March 25, in the Powerball drawing. The second was the following night, Tuesday the 26th, in the Mega lottery that left a billionaire in New Jersey.
The one in New York was originally $1 million dollars, but since the lucky winner had chosen the multiplier option the prize was doubled to $2 million.
Without surprise, yesterday a long line of customers arrived with the hope of becoming the next lottery winner. “This place is on fire,” he told ABC News Jack Feeley, who drove two hours from Long Island to Newburgh with his friend and braved a long line to buy Powerball tickets.
“No one wins where I’m going,” Bob Accurso said of his decision to join Feeley on the long journey. “So maybe I should go somewhere different, which is what I’m doing.”
“A lot of my friends told me to come here,” said another lottery player, Donna Garrison. “You have to be in it to win it.” But despite its emerging reputation as a lottery hotspot, “Smokes 4 Less” has not received a share of the profits because they have not yet sold a jackpot.
Meanwhile, Tuesday’s $1.13 billion Mega Lotto winning ticket was sold at a liquor store in Neptune, NJ, whose owner, Richard Saker, will receive a $30,000 commission. The ticket matched all six balls 7, 11, 22, 29, 38 and Mega Ball 4 and the lucky person has not yet come forward publicly.
The final jackpot amount will be determined after all ticket sales have been counted and has a cash option estimated at $537.5 million, it said. NJ.com. It is the largest jackpot ever won in New Jersey – surpassing the $533 million won in Mega Millions in 2018 – and the 5th largest in the history of that lottery, he noted. New YorkPost.
In addition, that draw left 13 new millionaires around the country who matched all five white balls, including the one from Newburgh in New York. Bettors can securely check their tickets in the New York Lottery app or on the official Powerball and Mega Millions pages. Players have up to one calendar year from the time of the drawing to claim their prizes.
Previously, a person won a fortune of $19.2 million dollars by winning the jackpot in the New York LOTTO drawing on Saturday, March 23. That ticket was sold in the city of Schenectady.
In the middle of this month, for the second time in just five days, a person won $1 million in the Powerball lottery in New York City: one in the Upper East Side of Manhattan and another in Queens.
The New York Lottery remains the largest and most profitable in North America, contributing $3.7 billion in fiscal year 2022-23 to help support education in the state, he said. ABCNews.
According to statistics, New York is the “luckiest” state in the US for the number of jackpot winners in the Powerball and Mega Millions lotteries in recent decades.
Those struggling with gambling addiction or know someone who does can find help by calling New York State’s toll-free and confidential HOPEline at 1-877-8-HOPENY (1-877-846-7369); or by texting HOPENY (467369).
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