A $1 million lottery prize was claimed on Thursday by a player who went to a gas station in Western Massachusetts to buy a scratch ticket.
The $1 million prize was from the lottery’s “$5,000,000 100X Cashword” scratch ticket game, which costs $20 per ticket to play. There are still two $1 million prizes remaining to be claimed in the game as of March 8, and one $5 million grand prize.
The winning $1 million lottery ticket was sold in East Longmeadow from a Pride gas station.
Additionally, two $100,000 lottery prizes were won or claimed on Thursday. One prize was from the lottery’s “300X” scratch ticket game, and was sold in at a Shell in Brockton.
The other $100,000 prize was won during the daily “Mass Cash” drawing, with the winning ticket sold in South Easton from a shop called White Rose Pantry.
Overall, there were at least 587 lottery prizes worth $600 or more won or claimed in Massachusetts on Thursday, including 15 in Springfield, 22 in Worcester and 51 in Boston.
The Massachusetts State Lottery releases a full list of winning tickets every day. The list only includes winning tickets worth more than $600.
So far, the two largest lottery prizes won in Massachusetts in 2024 were two $4 million prizes. One was claimed on Tuesday, Jan. 16, and the other was claimed on Tuesday, Feb. 27.
