New York State Gaming Commission, Division of the Lottery
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For Immediate Release – October 8, 2015

It was ‘Winner Wednesday’ at the New York Lottery with multiple winners in the Powerball, Lotto and TAKE 5 draw games. Suffolk County had two winners with a $150,000 Powerball ticket sold at 7-Eleven at 162 Old Country Road in Riverhead and a $34,939 TAKE 5 winner sold at Handy Pantry No. 10 at 12250 Route 25 in Mattituck.

The largest win was a $1 million Powerball prize sold at Wegmans in Niagara Falls.

Other winners included:

• A $122,487 Lotto ticket sold in Staten Island
• A second TAKE 5 ticket, also worth $34,939 sold in Brooklyn

“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 Long Island office at 45 South Service Road, Plainview, NY 11803 or at Resorts World Casino New York City, 110-00 Rockaway Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11420. 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.