Turns out, the teacher won “much more than some gas money,” lottery officials said. After scratching two tickets, the teacher scratched a third: a $10 The Shore Thing ticket, lottery officials said. The player soon learned they had won the game’s top prize of $500,000.

A teacher let a lottery-ticket gift sit in their car for weeks before learning it was a $500,000 winner, per a press release from the New Jersey Lottery

The lucky teacher, who received several scratch-offs from grateful parents, had left the tickets in their car, forgotten until a recent July morning.

TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey Lottery sales totaled $3.3 billion for the fiscal year ending Sunday, a decline of $288 million or 7.9 percent from the previous

The scratch-offs sat in the teacher’s car until they played one of them while getting gas, hoping they had won some cash to fill up the car, officials said.

It started as a thank you. It ended in a half-million-dollar lottery prize for one unsuspecting New Jersey teacher.

However, one ticket sold in New Jersey won a prize of $40,000 for matching four of the five white balls and the gold Mega ball. The New Jersey Lottery said that prize is normally $10,000 but it was boosted to $40,000 because of the 4X multiplier. The lucky ticket was sold at Mike’s Deli on Oak Hill Road in Red Bank, lottery officials said.

A New Jersey teacher found $500,000 in scratch-off tickets from a student's end-of-year gift, raising the stakes for parents on how to show appreciation this school year.

Two New Jersey lottery tickets sold in Ocean and Bergen counties matched all five winning numbers Sunday, securing a combined Jersey Cash 5

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