Gloucester County's Top Lottery Prize In 2023: How Much Was It Worth?

GLOUCESTER COUNTY, NJ — The past year produced some major lottery prizes around the nation. And several lucky participants in Gloucester County earned significant winnings.

Gloucester County's most-valuable lottery ticket of 2023 generated $901,672 during Oct. 10's Jersey Cash 5 drawing. The ticket came from One Stop Shoppe (933 Red Bank Ave., West Deptford).

The biggest win in the state last year came from QuickChek in Point Pleasant. The convenience store sold a Pick-6 ticket that yielded $25.6 million from Aug. 14's Pick-6 contest.

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Nationwide, a Florida ticket produced the year's largest lottery prize. The ticket earned $1.58 billion in Aug. 8's Mega Millions drawing, becoming the biggest prize in Mega Millions history and the third most-valuable U.S. jackpot ever won.

In recent years, the jackpots in Mega Millions and Powerball games have ballooned. Both contests have tweaked their formulas to generate large jackpots, which have also reduced the already-minuscule odds of winning the top prize, according to NerdWallet.

The larger jackpots have also led to greater ticket sales, while rising interest rates also factor into the advertised jackpots — paid annually to the winner over the course of decades if they choose that route. But most lottery-jackpot winners choose to receive a one-time payment of a lesser amount.