New York Lottery officials and a crew of convenience store workers are keeping their eyes peeled for the person holding a Mega Millions ticket worth $133 million.
"No one has come to make a claim yet," said Dilip Patel, 35, who works at the Shiv Convenience Store on Hillside Ave. "As far as I know it was a woman and she is really lucky."
There was only one ticket that matched all six numbers in Tuesday's drawing, officials said. The winning numbers were 25, 27, 35, 38, 39 and the Mega ball was 28.
The winning ticket was a Quick Pick: the numbers on the winning ticket were selected at random by the lottery terminal.
Friday's jackpot reverts to $12 million.
The store, which Patel said sells about $4,000 in lottery tickets daily, was adorned with bright orange signs Wednesday calling on the ticket holder to step forward.
Patel, an immigrant from India, said lottery officials called him around 8 a.m. Wednesday informing him that his store sold the winning ticket.
The store, owned by Jayef Patel, who is unrelated to Dilip, will get $10,000, lottery officials said.
Officials said the winner allowed the computer to pick the numbers. The player selected the lump sum option instead of getting 26 annual payments.
There were also three second prize tickets sold in Monroe, Suffolk and Dutchess counties. Those tickets matched five numbers and are worth $250,000 each.
The Suffolk second-place ticket was sold at a 7-Eleven on East Northport Road in Kings Park, according to lottery officials. The other second-place winners from New York were sold in Dutchess and Monroe counties.
good for them
...should've been me...
it will come back to georgia!!!
"The player selected the lump sum option instead of getting 26 annual payments."
Do you have to choose your method of payment when you purchase your ticket in New York?
I've never heard of this before.Most states allow you to decide on the method of payment when you redeem the winning ticket,don't they?
Texas still makes you choose between annual pymts or cash option at the time you buy your ticket.
They might be trying to get everything in order before they come forward.
Years ago Ohio had a cash box to check on its play slips but now there's no box and the jackpot winners have the first sixty days of the 180 days claim period to decide whether to take the cash value or the annuity.
HEY MaddMike51......................in new york state ,you have to choose at the time of purchasing the tickets........
gocart1 & LottoPools,I don't think states should make you make an important decision like that until you have a chance to your lawyer & financial advisers.I'm glad I live in a state that allows you to wait before deciding how to take your money.
Never - ever - take an annuity !
I agree.But what is right for me might not be right for someone else.
i hope thats what they are doing
I have friends who live in the area, i have to find out if one of them is the WINNER! :)
Yea in NY and NJ (where I live) you have to choose the payout method should you win the jackpot right there at the store. By default though, if you buy qp's and don't say anything, it always gives you the cash value, probably because it is the overwhelmingly more popular choice. I wouldnt trust an annunuity anyway.
I don't agree. Especially if you are young. Look what happened to Whittaker, Edwards and others.
thats f good. Iam glad someone finally win in NY
NY wins a lot, check out the mega millions website. I think they've won the most since 2002...they just have a problem remembering to claim the jackpot. I hope this winner doesn't forget, or loose/destroy the ticket or whatever.
Age has nothing to do with it and even if those guys took the annuity they probably STILL would have had the same problems.
The heck with that...MM and PB winners are too often on the East coast. It needs to head out West for a few wins to be even closely fair.
I totally disagree with you. NJ and Georgia have won the most.
I bet you Gerogia will not win the jackpot for a while. Other state like NY needs to start winning the jackpot too.
Needs to start? New York had at least one winner last year IIRC and so far this year with eight jackpot winners for MM, New York has now had four winners (all single JP wins too), California three, Virginia two, New Jersey and Ohio have each had one. With a bit over five months to go, I think NY has won enough.
Georgia, Michigan and Ohio (especially Ohio) had their share last year but it was over a course of the entire year and I don't believe any state had four winners, let alone three in just seven months.
WELL thats how new york works ,but you cant fight city hall......lmao....Maddmike .........hows your ride ...nice bike by the way.. 2000 superglude,,fxdx..
i work at a hospital in the bronx and i was just told that the guy that brings the air tanks and nitrogen on a truck to the hospital was the winner...best of luck to him....the reason i know about this is the guy quit the job and now there is a new guy driving the truck...........
Congrats to the winner!
Time for MM to come home to Michigan....
I don't have a clue what you are talking about.What bike?
Must be someone else using my name.I've had the nickname MaddMike for over 30 years.As far as I know I am the ORIGINAL MaddMike...all others are imposters!
Based off the MM website NY has won 16 times (17 including this last win), NJ: 13 and GA: 8. The website information ony goes back to the year 2002, so maybe the results would be different if years from before then were included.
But 3 times you guys let the jackpot go unclaimed....what-the-hoo-ha man?!?
In Georgia , at time of purchase you must select cash option or annuity. If jackpot prize is won, and you chose Cash Option at purchase, you have 60 days from date prize is claimed to change your mind and claim prize as annuity. if you chose annuity at time of purchase you cannot change it to cash option if jackpot prize is won.
In South Carolina, you must also choose Cash Option or Annuity at purchase time. I don't know if you can change claim method if jackpot prize is won. I love the fact that South Carolina will let you claim prizes of any size including jackpot annonymously!
At my age I would never take an annuity.I can understand why a younger person might choose an annuity,though.I think all states should allow winners to be anonymous.There is no reason why the entire world needs to know how much you are worth.If you want to go public,fine,that should be your right,but it should also be right to remain anonymous.
It wasn't the CASH -
It was, and is Stupidity !