Jackpot

The Powerball jackpot was $1.76 billion dollars on Wednesday, October 11th. There was one winner and that ticket was sold in California. However, a second-place winner in Upstate New York is worth one million dollars!

As New Yorkers dash to buy lottery tickets ahead of the big drawing, keep in mind these rules you'll have to follow when you win big!

Turns out New Yorkers have the most luck when it comes to winning the Mega Millions jackpot.

The Mega Millions jackpot for the July 18th drawing was $640,000,000 and although there was no top prize winner, the second prize was worth a cool million. Check your New York Lottery Mega Millions tickets because someone in Upstate New York is a one-million-dollar winner!

The New York Lottery's Take 5 drawing has been a lucky game for a bunch of Capital Region players in the last few weeks. There were two winners at area Saratoga County Stewart's Shops totaling over eighty thousand dollars in the last week. Add another winner to the list. This time in Albany.

There have been three Take 5 winners in the Capital Region in the last month. Two of them have come from a Stewart's Shop in Saratoga County in the last week. This latest winner bought their ticket at a Stewart's Shop that is worth over thirty-four thousand dollars.

With the Mega Millions jackpot is $1.35 billion, everyone has a dream of hitting it big. But in New York State if you will the lottery, you must come forward. However, past winners have gotten clever about not disclosing their actual names.

There are a ton of New York Lottery games you can play on a daily basis. But recently it seems that people in the Capital Region are cashing in and winning big on Take 5 from the New York Lottery. Someone is holding a winning Take 5 ticket worth over $18,000!

Check your tickets! If you bought a New York Lottery Take 5 ticket in Rensselaer County or Montgomery County then you could be holding a nearly ten grand winner.

Columbia County is boasting the latest Take 5 winner in the New York Lottery. This time someone won the top prize of forty-five thousand dollars. The winning ticket was sold for Saturday night's (July 31st) drawing at a busy convenience store.

There is another lucky Take 5 winner in the Capital Region. This time in Saratoga County. I play Take 5 regularly now because it seems that there are more winners every day in this particular game in our area. I also live in Saratoga County now and I believe the winning ticket will be mine soon after hearing about the latest winner.

Check your Take 5 ticket from the New York Lottery. Someone purchased a ticket from a a convenient store in Rotterdam Junction for last night's drawing and whoever won is sitting on some pretty serious money right now and they may not even know it.

I always say that someday I will win a ton of money on either a scratch-off or in the lottery. It seems that more Capital Region residents are cashing in. There was another winner that scratched their way to $5 million.

Not one single soul had the winning digits for the Mega Millions last night! So the jackpot continues to grow, getting closer and closer to the $300 million mark this week. I don't know about you but I will be picking up more tickets before the next drawing. What would you do if you won?