Jackot
Jersey Cash 5 lottery players will try to make it four consecutive drawings with a jackot winner this evening.
None of the prizes were particularly large by Cash 5 standards, but when all five numbers were matched on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday it was the first time a jackot was hit on three straight nights since Halloween.
Though there were jackot winners on three straight or four straight nights a handful of times last year, only once did the run of luck extend beyond that. From April 12-17 all the numbers were matched six consecutive evening, according to a review of lottery archives.
The largest of the three most recent payouts was Tuesday — the $314,438 prize is to be split between ticketholders in Monmouth and Middlesex who made their purchases less than 10 miles apart.
One ticket was bought at Triple Joy Deli & Grocery on Hall Avenue in Perth Amboy; the other at Buy Rite of Keyport on Route 35 in the borough, state lottery officials said. Those winning numbers were 8, 10, 19, 24 and 30.
The other payouts were less than $100,00 each. The odds of a single ticket matching five numbers is 962,598 to 1.
Tonight's jackot resets to $75,000.
A week ago today, someone won the largest Jersey Cash 5 prize of the year by a single winner — $1,015,698.