Lottery player at Brick store won $140,000 on Christmas Eve

BRICK — A shopper at Jay’s Food Mart at 358 Herbertsville Road in Brick got a Christmas Gift a day early — when the New Jersey Lottery announced a Jersey Cash 5 ticket from the store won $140,963.

The ticket matched all five numbers from Monday's drawing: 10, 22, 23, 25 and 40, and the "XTRA" number, 04.

The retailer will receive a bonus check for $2,000 for the winning ticket sold.

According to the Lottery, there were 286,462 tickets purchased for the drawing. By adding XTRA, for an additional $1 per play, winners are able to multiply their non-jackpot prizes by the XTRA number drawn. In other words, the prize was four times as high as it would have been without the XTRA match.

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The Lottery did not announce if the winning ticket had yet been redeemed.

The Lottery also announced Tuesday its Pick-6 drawing on December 23 produced seven winners of $3,790, for matching five out of six white balls drawn — but no winner who matched all 6 tickets. That rolls over the unawarded winnings into a $5 million drawing that will be held Thursday.