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Winning TAKE-5 Lottery Ticket Sold at Mount Vernon Shop

A lucky winner in Mount Vernon will be taking home a prize worth $58,872.00 from the recent lottery drawing.

One fortunate Mount Vernon lottery player will have a little more cash in their pockets following the recent TAKE-5 drawing.
One fortunate Mount Vernon lottery player will have a little more cash in their pockets following the recent TAKE-5 drawing. (Ryan Bonner)

MOUNT VERNON, NY — The New York Lottery announced a top-prize winning TAKE-5 ticket was sold at the Ekam Shop Deli Grocery located on 5th Avenue in Mount Vernon.

The ticket is worth $58,872.00 to the person holding the winning numbers.

TAKE-5 numbers are drawn nightly from a field of numbers ranging from one through 39. The Mount Vernon winning ticket was sold for the April 26, 10:30 p.m. drawing.

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The winner has up to one year from the date of the drawing to claim the prize money.

The winning numbers on the prize-winning lottery ticket are 01-07-12-31-34, which the Mount Vernon winner used the “Play It Again” feature to win, where identical numbers that were played in the previous 30 days can be tried again. While the overall odds of winning are 1 in 8.77, the odds of winning the jackpot with 5 matching numbers are 1 in 575,757.

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New Yorkers struggling with a gambling addiction, or who know someone who is, can find help by calling the State's toll-free, confidential HOPEline at 1-877-8-HOPENY (1-877-846-7369) or by texting HOPENY (467369).

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