A lottery player in Massachusetts won a $10,000 a month for 10 years lottery prize and came forward to claim the winning $5 scratch ticket on Monday, the Massachusetts State Lottery said.
The winning ticket was sold in Spencer, from a shop called X Press Mart. It was from the scratch ticket game called “$5 Decade of Dollars,” which costs $5 per ticket to play.
The lottery player claimed their $10,000 a month for 10 years lottery prize, the highest prize available to win in a game, on Monday, Oct. 16. There is just one grand prize remaining to be claimed in the game as of Oct. 17.
The winner had the option of claiming the prize in its annuity form, which would be a total of $1.2 million before taxes, or the cash option of $780,000 before taxes. The X Press Mart will receive a $12,000 bonus for the selling the winning ticket, the lottery said.
Another lottery prize claimed Monday was sold at a Cumberland Farms gas station in Norton. It was a $100,000 scratch ticket from the game “20X Cash,” which costs $2 to play.
Overall, there were at least 798 lottery prizes worth $600 or more won or claimed in Massachusetts on Monday, including 20 in Springfield and 23 in Worcester.
The Massachusetts State Lottery releases a full list of all the winning tickets each day. The list only includes winning tickets worth more than $600.
The two largest lottery prizes won in the state of Massachusetts so far in 2023 were $33 million and $31 million Mega Millions jackpot prizes. The tickets were each sold a week apart.
The $33 million ticket for the Tuesday, Jan. 24 drawing was purchased from a Stop & Shop in Belchertown. The winner came forward to claim the prize on March 1 through the Skylark Group Trust.
The $31 million Mega Millions jackpot ticket was won on Jan. 31. The winning ticket was bought in Woburn from a Gibbs gas station, and the winner claimed the prize on March 8 through S & L Trust.
