{"id":23759,"date":"2024-03-27T13:51:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T17:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=23759"},"modified":"2024-03-27T13:51:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T17:51:44","slug":"major-mega-millions-runner-up-tickets-sold-in-brick-toms-river-jackpot-in-neptune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2024\/03\/major-mega-millions-runner-up-tickets-sold-in-brick-toms-river-jackpot-in-neptune\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Mega-Millions Runner-Up Tickets Sold in Brick, Toms River (Jackpot in Neptune)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mega_millions_nj.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13559\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mega_millions_nj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mega_millions_nj.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mega_millions_nj-400x215.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mega_millions_nj-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mega_millions_nj-640x344.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mega_millions_nj-681x366.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lottery tickets in the billion-dollar \u2013 including a jackpot ticket \u2013 have been sold in the local area, including significant runner-up awards in Brick and Toms River.<\/p>\n<p>The jackpot ticket in the $1.13 billion Mega Millions game \u2013 cash value $537.5 million \u2013 was sold at ShopRite Liquor, 2200 Route 66, Neptune. The ticket represents the largest jackpot ever won in New Jersey and the fifth largest Mega Millions jackpot, lottery official said in a statement issued Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A bit closer to home, two runner-up tickets in the five-figure range were sold.<\/p>\n<p>A ticket sold at the Princeton Avenue Deli & Dairy, 300 Princeton Avenue, Brick, was worth $20,000. That ticket matched four of the five white balls drawn, winning the $10,000 third-tier prize, but included a \u201cmultiplier\u201d that doubled the award.<\/p>\n<p>A ticket worth $10,000 was sold at the ShopRite store at 2 Route 37 West, Toms River, the location near the Garden State Parkway entrance.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>winning numbers<\/strong> for the <strong>Tuesday<\/strong><strong>, March 26, drawing<\/strong> were: <strong>07, 11, 22, 29 <\/strong><strong>and <\/strong><strong>38<\/strong>. The Gold <strong>MegaBall number<\/strong> was <strong>04<\/strong>. The <strong>Multiplier number<\/strong> was <strong>02<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As to who won the billion-dollar jackpot \u2013 ultimately it will be up to the winner to reveal themselves or not.<\/p>\n<p>A 2020 New Jersey law allows lottery winners to remain anonymous indefinitely, and the identity of winners are exempt from the state\u2019s Open Public Records Act. Players claiming Lottery prizes worth $600 or more must still provide their identity to Lottery officials in order to claim a prize.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2024\/03\/major-mega-millions-runner-up-tickets-sold-in-brick-toms-river-jackpot-in-neptune\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lottery tickets in the billion-dollar \u2013 including a jackpot ticket \u2013 have been sold in the local area, including significant runner-up awards in Brick and Toms River. The jackpot ticket in the $1.13 billion Mega Millions game \u2013 cash value $537.5 million \u2013 was sold at ShopRite Liquor, 2200 Route 66, Neptune. The ticket represents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,4484,3962,876],"class_list":["post-23759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-featured","tag-jackpot","tag-mega-millions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mega_millions_nj.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-6bd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}