{"id":10502,"date":"2026-05-12T08:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=10502"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:41:09","slug":"toms-river-shop-rite-store-sells-20k-winning-lottery-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2026\/05\/toms-river-shop-rite-store-sells-20k-winning-lottery-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River Shop-Rite Store Sells $20K Winning Lottery Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_784\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mega-millions-d86b2afced6edb9b.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"NJ Lottery Mega Millions (File Photo)\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"NJ Lottery Mega Millions (File Photo)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-784\" class=\"size-full wp-image-784\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mega-millions-d86b2afced6edb9b.jpg\" alt=\"NJ Lottery Mega Millions (File Photo)\" width=\"768\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mega-millions-d86b2afced6edb9b.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mega-millions-d86b2afced6edb9b-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mega-millions-d86b2afced6edb9b-640x344.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mega-millions-d86b2afced6edb9b-681x366.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NJ Lottery Mega Millions (File Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A lucky shopper at the township\u2019s Shop-Rite supermarket at Route 37 near the Parkway interchange is $20,000 richer this week.<\/p>\n<p>State lottery officials on Monday said the ticket was a runner-up winner of the Mega Millions game. The ticket was purchased for the May 5, 2026 drawing. The winning numbers were 12, 22, 50, 51 and 55, with the \u201cMega Ball\u201d being 10.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous multi-million dollar runner up tickets were also sold, however all originated from stores in North Jersey.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2026\/05\/toms-river-shop-rite-store-sells-20k-winning-lottery-ticket\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lucky shopper at the township\u2019s Shop-Rite supermarket at Route 37 near the Parkway interchange is $20,000 richer this week. State lottery officials on Monday said the ticket was a runner-up winner of the Mega Millions game. The ticket was purchased for the May 5, 2026 drawing. The winning numbers were 12, 22, 50, 51 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1080,306,132,1993,11],"class_list":["post-10502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toms-river-life","tag-featured","tag-mega-millions","tag-new-jersey-lottery","tag-newsbreak","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mega-millions-d86b2afced6edb9b.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10503,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502\/revisions\/10503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}