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April 17, 2014                                                               (518) 388-3415

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The New York Lottery today announced a top prize winning ticket for the April 15 TAKE 5 drawing was sold at Wegmans at 851 Fairport Road in East Rochester. The ticket is worth $67,071.

This is the third winning Lottery tickets sold at an area Wegmans in the past several weeks.  For the March 8, 2014 Lotto drawing, a second prize ticket worth $15,355 was sold at the Wegmans at 900 Holt Road in Webster.  For the April 13, 2014 TAKE 5 drawing, a top prize ticket worth $30,551 was sold at the Wegmans at 4287 Geneseo Valley Plaza in Geneseo.

In addition to the $67,071 top prize for the April 15 TAKE 5 drawing, which was won by matching five out of five numbers, 211 players each purchased $476.50 winning tickets by matching four out of five numbers for the drawing. 

The winning numbers for the April 15 TAKE 5 drawing were 08-10-29-30-32.

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 ticket at Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack, 5857 Route 96 in Farmington, NY 14425, or at Batavia Downs Gaming, 8315 Park Road in Batavia, NY 14020 or at any one of the Lottery’s Customer Service Centers statewide, including the Syracuse office in the Deys Centennial Building, 401 South Salina Street, Syracuse, NY 13202. 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 $3.04 billion in fiscal year 2012-2013 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.