For Immediate Release:                                         Contact: Communications Office

   September 2, 2014                                                                              (518) 388-3415

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 ALBANY, N.Y. – Two New York Lottery players won top prizes of more than $33,000 each from the Labor Day weekend TAKE 5 drawings. A top prize winning ticket of $36,804.50 for the Friday, August 29 TAKE 5 drawing was sold at Village Mobil at 88 Wolf Road in Colonie. The next day, another top prize winning ticket of $33,173.50 for the August 30 TAKE 5 drawing was sold at Coulson’s Variety News at 594 New Loudon Road in Latham.

In addition to the top prizes for the August 29 and August 30 TAKE 5 drawings, which were won by matching five out of five numbers, 266 players each purchased $415 winning tickets for the August 29 drawing, and 486 players each purchased $204.50 winning tickets for the August 30 drawing. In total, there were 191,052 TAKE 5 winners for both drawings.

The winning numbers for the August 29 TAKE 5 drawing were 01-10-16-17-21. The winning numbers for the August 30 TAKE 5 drawing were 16-21-23-24-25.

The Lottery encourages everyone who bought a New York Lottery draw game ticket, to check their tickets again, as they could be holding a winner. Tickets expire one year after the game’s drawing.

The winners may claim the tickets at any one of the Lottery’s Customer Service Centers statewide, including the Schenectady office at One Broadway Center, Schenectady, NY 12305 or at Saratoga Casino & Raceway, 342 Jefferson Street, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. To learn more about how to redeem a prize, click here.

About the New York Lottery

The New York Lottery continues to be North America’s largest and most profitable Lottery, contributing $3.17 billion in fiscal year 2013-2014 to help support education in New York State.  The Lottery’s contribution represents 15 percent of total state education aid to local school districts. 

New York Lottery revenue is distributed to local school districts by the same statutory formula used to distribute other state aid to education.  It takes into account both a school district’s size and its income level; larger, lower-income school districts receive proportionately larger shares of Lottery school funding.

About the New York State Gaming Commission

The New York State Gaming Commission regulates all aspects of gaming and gambling activity in the state, including horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering, class III Indian gaming, video lottery terminal facilities at race tracks, the state lottery and charitable gaming.