A 10-month drought without a Pick 6 New Jersey lottery winner ended Monday night when someone hit the $29.5 million jackpot.
The lucky ticket was bought at Eddy's Wine & Liquors on Avenue C in Bayonne, state lottery officials said Tuesday. If the winner chose the cash option the prize is $20.87 million before taxes are deducted.
Monday's winning numbers were 9, 12, 15, 18, 27, and 34. The XTRA number was 3.
The jackpot climbed through most of 2018 since a lucky player won a $9.6 million jackpot on Feb. 15 after buying a ticket at a stationery store in Bergenfield.
Monday's jackpot marks the fourth-largest prize Pick 6 prize since 2001, which is as far back as state lottery records date. The largest Pick 6 jackpot hit since then was a $48.9 million prize won on Feb. 6, 2001. Pick 6 drawings started in May 1980.
The odds of a $1 ticket matching all six numbers are 13,983,816 to 1.
Pick 6 offers the largest prizes (and longest odds) of any draw game where tickets are exclusively sold in New Jersey. Games such as Powerball and Mega Millions tickets are multi-state games played across the country.
Thursday's jackpot resets to $2 million.
Largest Pick 6 jackpots since 2001
- February 6, 2001 - $48,900,000
- June 3, 2002 - $45,900,000
- May 10, 2004 - $35,500,000
- Dec. 17, 2018 - $29,500,000
- June 4, 2009 - $24,250,000
- June 25, 2012 - $21,500,000
- June 16, 2014 - $20,100,000
- November 20, 2005 - $20,000,000
- January 14, 2010 - $16,500,000
- October 23, 2006 - $15,500,000
- June 26, 2003 - $13,900,000
- April 28, 2008 - $13,500,000
- December 12, 2013 - $12,800,000
- September 1, 2011 - $12,200,000
- July 12, 2007 - $12,000,000
Congratulations to this winner/s!! $20.87 million is definitely a life changer win.
That'll be a nice little Merry Christmas for some person(s)
Seems like every trip planned somebody wins the lottery where I was going to play...Atlantic City weekend after next.
Bayonne is where I picked up my truck when she returned from Deutschland. A world traveler she was, Japan to Virginia, Maryland to Germany and back again to Ft. Monmouth, NJ...the good old days before BRAC closed many military installations down. Something I will never agree to though I retired almost 22 years ago.
Bleudog101, There is good luck in Atlantic City.
BRAC should have signaled to our enemies that we are no longer imperialists. President Trump may pull our forces out of Syria. That should tell Syria, Iran and the Russians our intentions.
The Crusaders had the good sense to leave the Middle East and return home.
Good for the winner.
It's good to see Bayonne get mentioned, home of the Bayonne Bleeder, Chuck Wepner, the Real Rocky.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Wepner
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2017/05/02/who-is-real-rocky-chuck-wepner/101158422/
Stallone stole the story, changed the name, moved it to Philadelphia and made millions with somebody eles'e real life story.
There was also two brothers from Bayonne that wrestled and the ring announcer introduced them as "From the rough, tough, waterfront town of Bayonne, NJ."
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See Bayonne and die.
Bayonne, NJ, gateway to the Bayonne Bridge.
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When I was in HS and we played 'the hook' we used to hang out on the NY side of the Bayonne Bridge just in case any NJ truant officers were looking for us
NY / NJ
The bridge connects Bayonne and Staten Island but outside of people from Staten Island most in NYC have no knowledge of Bayonne.
Bayonne is a peninsula, last I knew there were still no hotels or motels and it doesn't have a newspaper either.
If anyone ws to0 try and pull off a big crime all the cops have top do is seal off city line (Bayonne / Jersey City border).
Never paid any attention driving from Ft. Monmouth, NJ to Staten Island that it was Bayonne. (To buy lottery tickets) I remember the NY tickets being larger than a business card with same consistency of one and dot matrix printers.
If that's the same bridge that was there in the early 90's can remember it being very narrow and afraid to hit the car next lane over.
Bleudog101,
I'm pretty sure it's the same bridge, been there a long time.
I got the same sensations you did on that bridge every time I drove on the Pulaski Skyway.
Either people don't play that much, or the odds are too high. 10 months between wins is insane.
The upside to this situation is that you can wait it out until the jackpot climbs high enough to bother playing. $29.5 million is worth more than double the $1 ticket price (pre-tax), making this last drawing a strong investment (albeit with a huge amount of variance).
This is no different than MM/PB where sales are slow for weeks while the jackpot climbs slowly, then when the jackpot is large enough, sales increase because the game becomes worth playing ($40 million annuity for a $2 bet in a 1 in 300 million chance of winning is a rip-off).
If you want to play a game that gets jackpot winners on a regular basis, play pick 3. "Jackpot" (straight) winners happen multiple times in every drawing. Of course, the jackpot is not much, so there's always a trade-off. The probability of winning NJ's 6/49 game is 13,983 times harder to win than a straight in pick 3. That is, with equal number of tickets sold, there are 13,983 pick 3 winners for just one 6/49 winner.
Congrats
congratulations .... you can start to smile " 'lucky winner ' you must be happy ''
