Lottery: Take 5 winning ticket sold at Ronkonkoma store
One lucky person no doubt has designs on a fabulous holiday season after buying a winning Take 5 ticket this week at the J&C Gift and Fashion store on Portion Road in Ronkonkoma.
New York Lottery officials said the winning ticket for the Monday night drawing is worth $30,750.50.
It’s the second top-prize winning Take 5 ticket sold in Ronkonkoma within the last month. On Nov. 20, a winner worth $53,581 was sold at the nearby Thrifty Beverage on Goldbach Avenue, lottery officials said Tuesday.
The winning ticket sold at J&C matched five of five numbers: 13, 19, 23, 31 and 37. An additional 197 players statewide matched four of five numbers for $468. In total, officials said there were 83,802 winning tickets sold statewide.
Some of those tickets are for a free drawing.
As of Tuesday morning the winning ticket holder for the ticket sold at J&C had not been identified. Officials said winning tickets expire one year after the drawing.
Numbers are drawn nightly from a pool of 39 available numbers. Prizes can be claimed at Lottery Customer Service Centers statewide, including on the South Service Road of the Long Island Expressway in Plainview, officials said.
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Out East with Doug Geed: Wine harvests, a fish market, baked treats and poinsettias NewsdayTV's Doug Geed visits two wineries and a fish market, and then it's time for holiday cheer, with a visit to a bakery and poinsettia greenhouses.
