Brentwood man hits jackpot in state lottery's scratch-off game; takes $4.2 million payout
A Brentwood man hit it big with a $20 scratch-off ticket this holiday season, scoring the jackpot prize of $10,000 a week for life, state lottery officials announced.
The lottery identified the winner as Mack Peoples, and said that in lieu of the weekly payments, he elected to take a one-time payout of $4,224,667 after taxes.
The ticket was purchased at a 7-Eleven store on Brentwood Road in Bay Shore.
Officials did not say when the ticket was purchased — or when Peoples came forward to claim the prize.
Attempts to reach Peoples for comment were not immediately successful Monday.
Officials said that as of Monday, two grand-prize tickets were still out there and unclaimed for the $10,000 a Week for Life scratch-off game No. 1584.
The prior $10,000 a Week for Life game, No. 1478, has no top prizes remaining, according to the lottery.
The scratch-off features a $10,000-a-week-for-life top prize (with three winning tickets available; now, two remain) and has a second-place prize of $10,000 and third-place prize of $2,500.
The guaranteed minimum payout for the Life winner is $10 million, before taxes, officials said.
The lottery still has a number of big-ticket scratch-off prizes out there on a wide range of games, including: the $30 ticket Jackpot Fortune; $20 ticket Millionaire Maker; $10 ticket Set for Life; $10 ticket Holiday $1,000,000; the $5 ticket $1,000,000 Golden Fortune; and, $5 ticket $1,000,000 Lucky Dog, among others.
The lottery said that scratch-off ticket games generated more than $4.4 billion in sales during the 2022-23 fiscal year, with school districts in Suffolk receiving more than $359 mllion in Lottery Aid to Education during that time. The funding to Nassau schools during that time was not immediately available, though lottery officials said $3.7 billion was sent to schools statewide in 2022-23.
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