The New York Lottery today announced a top prize winning ticket for the March 16 TAKE 5 drawing was sold at Wegmans at 675 Alberta Drive in Buffalo. The winning ticket is worth $31,096.

In addition to the $31,096 top prize for the March 16 TAKE 5 drawing, which was won by matching five out of five numbers, 276 players each purchased winning tickets worth $338 by matching four out of five numbers for the drawing. In total, there were 80,119 TAKE 5 winners for the March 16 drawing.

The winning numbers for the March 16 TAKE 5 drawing were 18-19-20-21-37.

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 Lottery’s Buffalo office, located at 165 Genesee Street in Buffalo, or the Lottery’s office at Hamburg Gaming at the Fairgrounds, located at 5820 South Park Avenue in Hamburg. To learn more about how to redeem a prize, click here.

The five winning numbers for TAKE 5 are drawn from the set of 39 available numbers every day at 11:21 p.m. To download the free winning numbers app, click here.

About the New York Lottery

The New York Lottery continues to be North America’s largest and most profitable Lottery, contributing $3.30 billion in fiscal year 2015-2016 to help support education in New York State.  The Lottery’s contribution represents 14 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.