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Million-Dollar Lottery Ticket Sold At Upper East Side Store

Did you recently buy a Powerball ticket on Second Avenue?

According to the New York Lottery, a $1 million Powerball ticket was sold here on Saturday.
According to the New York Lottery, a $1 million Powerball ticket was sold here on Saturday. (Google Maps)

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The Upper East Side might have another millionaire.

A second-prize winning Powerball ticket was sold on the Upper East Side on Friday, according to the New York Lottery.

The ticket, worth $1 million, was sold at Peoples Place Gourmet Deli at 1391 Second Ave., near East 72nd Street, the Lottery said.

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While that seems like a big payday for a $3 ticket, the Powerball's full jackpot is up to $532 million for Monday's drawing.

To win the big prize, all five numbers — and the powerball — need to match with the randomly selected numbers.

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That means your odds are a staggering nearly 1 in 300 million.

For the lucky second prize winner, their task was to simply have five matching numbers, bring their odds down to a much more realistic 1 in 11.6 million.

If you're wondering if you were Saturday's new millionaire, the winning numbers were 30, 36, 49, 52, 63, and 16.

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