There was one first-prize ticket in New York's "King Kong Millions" lottery game, worth $55 million before taxes, in Monday's drawing, which coincided with the New York City premiere of the new movie "King Kong."
That ticket was sold in Nassau County.
Five second-place tickets had a pretax value of $1 million each. The other four were sold in Niagara, Bronx, Steuben and Ontario counties.
One of the $1 million second-prize tickets was sold at the Stewart's Shop on state Route 212 in Saugerties.
Lottery Division spokesman Bob Barber and a clerk at the store confirmed the win, though neither was able to provide the name of the person who bought the $2 ticket.
Barber said the winner had not yet come forward. The clerk, identifying herself only as Althea, said the winning ticket was held by a young couple.
Ten third-prize tickets were worth $100,000 apiece.
Barber said many lottery winners do not claim their prizes right away.
"We send a letter to all prize winners, encouraging them to seek the advice of a financial professional before they claim their prize money," he said. "An attorney and an accountant should be your new best friend if you win the lottery."
Monday's one-time-only game was a raffle-type drawing, meaning numbers were drawn from among those purchased. Each winning combination had nine digits.
The winning numbers were:
First prize:
1-4-4-7-5-9-3-4-8
Second prize:
1-4-5-1-1-5-3-4-5
1-8-0-2-8-1-4-3-7
1-9-6-1-0-7-6-6-6
1-7-4-2-6-8-9-7-7
1-5-1-4-0-6-6-9-1
Third prize:
1-0-9-3-4-2-3-3-4
1-8-8-4-9-4-2-9-9
1-1-4-2-0-6-0-4-9
1-2-8-7-5-8-3-1-5
1-9-6-1-6-1-9-4-1
1-6-4-2-9-0-5-8-9
1-8-7-3-4-3-4-5-2
1-4-5-4-2-0-2-2-9
1-9-8-3-1-8-8-3-9
1-5-1-3-7-5-1-0-0
Barber said the winner had not yet come forward. The clerk, identifying herself only as Althea, said the winning ticket was held by a young couple. "We send a letter to all prize winners, encouraging them to seek the advice of a financial professional before they claim their prize money," he said. "An attorney and an accountant should be your new best friend if you win the lottery."
How do they know who the winner is before they come forward? Did you have to register when you bought the ticket?
Sounds like the store clerk knows the people who bought the ticket.
That's strange. I can't imagine a seller knowing who bought what when, by number.
Barber said the winner had not yet come forward. The clerk, identifying herself only as Althea, said the winning ticket was held by a young couple. "We send a letter to all prize winners, encouraging them to seek the advice of a financial professional before they claim their prize money," he said. "An attorney and an accountant should be your new best friend if you win the lottery."
How do they know who the winner is before they come forward? Did you have to register when you bought the ticket?
I smell a conspiracy if the winner chose 26 annual payments. The draw was computerized, and NY requires the cash/annuity choice to be made when you buy the ticket, instead of after you win.
www.fltimes.com has one winner on the front page of the site, only minutes away from where I live.
That guy looks like Hurley on LOST. Did he win another jackpot while on the island?
Because This raffle had a sweepstakes along with it, It allowed ticket holders to enter online:
Quoted from http://www.nylottery.org/ny/nyStore/cgi-bin/ProdSubEV_Cat_466_SubCat_467_NavRoot_325.htm
"To enter the New York Lottery King Kong Millions Sweepstakes through the mail, print your name, address, telephone number and unique 9 digit number found on your King Kong Millions ticket on a 3 x 5 card. Or use the online link."
thats my surmise of how they know the ticket holders name.
Humm - weird. I don't participate in those gimmicks, especially the ones where they want my name, etc that can be placed into some database for future use. You tend to get into trouble following that mentality. NJ has one of those with a "free' trip to the Caribbean. People tend to not read the fine print and wake up finding the taxes and on-site expenses are more then they considered. Blinded by the light of the prize.
Was the 55 million an annuity?
Was the other prizes also annuities?
I know NY is known for having everything as annuities. I was wondering if this was any different?
Brad
Was the 55 million an annuity?
Was the other prizes also annuities?
I know NY is known for having everything as annuities. I was wondering if this was any different?
Brad
The $55 million is annuity with a cash option. The other prizes are cash.
"An attorney and an accountant should be your new best friend if you win the lottery."
Umm wrong! You will be THEIR new best friend. I would be looking to end each relationship as soon as possible.
"An attorney and an accountant should be your new best friend if you win the lottery."
Umm wrong! You will be THEIR new best friend. I would be looking to end each relationship as soon as possible.
I have an attorney who set up my trust. Right now she is looking over a contract that would have my sister buy out my half of my late father's house (she lives there).