Winning ticket worth over a million is expiring soon
By Kate Northrop
New Jersey lottery players should rummage through their drawers and dig in their center consoles for a missing Jersey Cash 5 ticket worth $1.3 million. Pretty soon, it'll be no more.
Come Thanksgiving, all hopes for expressing gratitude for a $1.3 million Jersey Cash 5 lottery jackpot will go out the window.
The New Jersey Lottery is alerting players to a $1,300,245 Jersey Cash 5 jackpot that was hit nearly 11 months ago and is set to expire if no one comes forward with the winning ticket.
The prize was won with a single ticket purchased at the Wawa convenience store on Route 9 in Freehold, and it was for the Nov. 25, 2024 drawing.
"Players really should check their tickets," Lottery Executive Director James Carey said in a press release. "We have several ways our players can verify if they are winners. More than once, I've seen players come to us after a period of time saying they won a prize after finding a misplaced ticket."
Hopefully, the winner of this million-dollar jackpot can avoid similar heartbreak and locate the missing ticket.
As long as it's before the claims deadline, it's not too late to go on the hunt for rogue lottery tickets. Players should take a page out of another New Jersey winner's book, who discovered that a $1 million winning Mega Millions ticket had been sitting in their drawer for five months.
The $1.3 million winning Jersey Cash 5 ticket matched all five numbers in the Nov. 25, 2024 drawing, which were 3, 19, 24, 27, and 39. Lottery players in New Jersey have one year from the draw date to claim prizes.
There are also other large winning tickets nearing expiration, including a $150,000 Jersey Cash 5 ticket purchased in Belleville and a $50,000 Powerball ticket purchased in Paramus. They are set to expire on Nov. 1, 2025 and Nov. 23, 2025, respectively.
The Jersey Cash 5 jackpot currently stands at $2.85 million for the next drawing on Sunday, Oct. 5. Drawings take place every day at 10:57 p.m. Eastern Time. Tickets cost $2. A courier service offers online purchases with a service fee.
All winning numbers, prizes, and odds can be found on Lottery Post's New Jersey Lottery Results page right after each drawing.
here we go again LOL
I have a brilliant idea 💡
Everyone a prize goes unclaimed, they should give it to LP and Kate can do a draw.
Trust me no LP draw will go unclaimed 🤣
How about that for a plan 🤔
JustMaybe, You just pushed the idea I have had for years into at least second place...
I have always believed that *all* unclaimed funds should roll over into other "Special" drawings with much lower and more reasonable odds than PB & MM until it was won *and* claimed.
Daily? Weekly? Monthly? Holiday Drawings? By each State or Nationally? There would be many details to work out. I believe that the unclaimed funds should go to the buying public that furnished the funding in the first place.
The unclaimed funds should not go to the government organizations that run the lotteries with the exception of a *very* low percentage just to cover the extra costs of the operation.
My vote would be unclaimed scratcher funds be done by scratchers and unclaimed draw game funds be done by draw games.
Tickets could be free as a "Second Chance" bonus with the purchase of a draw game or scratcher. Buy one get one sounds reasonable to me.
Does anyone have any other thoughts on the subject while we dream about it?
Thank you for adding flesh to idea. I am all for it.
I like the reasoning that for the prize to get to where it is when won, it's people that contributed to it and it's only fair that if unclaimed, another person be given the chance to win it.
I know it's wishful thinking, but who knows, never say never.
What a conundrum! Lottery players spend a lot of time and money trying to capture that jackpot, yet all to often said jackpot is won but goes unclaimed. Funny how a lot of jackpots are won by careless individuals!
So true.. I still think about the New Jersey 1.3 Billion dollar Mega Millions ticket for the March 26, 2024 drawing, that went unclaimed and expired on March 27, 2025. All to often people purchase lottery tickets then throw them in the glove box of their car or a shoe box in their home and forget all about the ticket until it is too late.
I wonder, will we see a guy in a Darth Vader Helmet claiming the prize?