NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. – It was ‘Winner Wednesday’ at the New York Lottery with multiple winners in the Powerball, Lotto and TAKE 5 draw games. The largest win was a $1 million Powerball prize sold at Wegmans at 1577 Military Road in Niagara Falls.

Other winners included:

• $150,000 Powerball prize sold at 7-Eleven in Riverhead, Suffolk County
• $122,487 Lotto prize sold at New Midfield Deli in Staten Island
• Two top prize winning TAKE 5 tickets, each worth $34,939, sold in Brooklyn and Suffolk County

“We are excited to see five large winners across multiple games in New York all on the same day. The New York Lottery has thousands of winners each day at different prize levels with our draw games, but this truly turned into a “Winner Wednesday’ for our players,” said Gardner Gurney, Acting Director of the Division of the Lottery.

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 Buffalo office at 165 Genesee Street, Buffalo, NY 14203. 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 $3.11 billion in fiscal year 2014-2015 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.