Winning Jersey Cash 5 Ticket Turned One Lucky NJ Player Into A Millionaire

Have you ever won the lottery? Not even the big jackpot, but say, twenty bucks or fifty bucks off a scratch off?

Me neither.

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What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?

I've always said, though, if I won the lottery, my life wouldn't change that much. I'd pay off my house, what small amount is left of my student loans, and then put the rest into my brokerage account focused on ETFs that follow the S&P 500 because I'm pretty boring.

What Are The Odds Of You Actually Winning The Lottery?

The odds of you winning the lottery are slim, but in Jersey, we see winners more and more often.

Specifically, in the Jersey Cash 5, a game just for Jersey.

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The Jersey Cash 5 Has Better Odds For NJ Players

Take this into consideration next time you want to buy a lottery ticket. The odds of you winning something like the Powerball or the Mega Millions are somewhere in the area of 1 in 300 million.

The odds of you winning the Jersey Cash 5 are in the neighborhood of 1 in 1.2 million.

Those are some pretty good odds, all things considered!

Jersey Cash 5 Jackpot Worth Over 1.5 Million Sold Over The Weekend

And over the past week and a half, the Jersey Cash 5 has not produced a winner, until this past weekend.

On Saturday, according to NJ.com, somebody bought a Jersey Cash 5 ticket online, and it seriously paid off.

With the winning numbers 4, 20, 28, 35, 40, and a bullseye number of 40, someone in Jersey just took home a massive jackpot of 1.8 million dollars!

Since the winning ticket was bought online, we don't know exactly where in Jersey the winner is, but still, that's an amazing jackpot to be taking home.

The Jersey Cash 5 Game is now reset to its starting point of $150,000.