The New York Lottery announced on Tuesday, July 20, that there was one top-prize winning ticket sold for the July 19 TAKE 5 drawing. The ticket, worth $53,784.50, was purchased at 3N Convenience Inc, located at 950 Allerton Avenue in The Bronx.

 

The five winning numbers for the TAKE 5 game are drawn from a field of one to 39. Prizes are paid on a pari-mutuel basis, a form of betting in which those backing the first three places divide the losers’ stakes (less the operator’s commission).

 

The TAKE 5 drawing is televised every day at 10:30 p.m. A lottery draw game prize of any amount may be claimed up to one year from the date of the drawing.

 

Starting Monday, July 26, New Yorkers will be able to play the popular TAKE 5 game twice daily. The new draw time at 2.30 p.m. aligns TAKE 5 with the “Numbers” and “Win4” games, which already draw twice daily. Sales for the newly added mid-day drawing will close at 2.15 p.m. The daily drawing at 10.30 p.m. will continue as currently scheduled.

 

Gweneth Dean, executive director of NY Lottery, said “Take 5 created more than 2.5 million cash prize winners last fiscal year. The added drawing for this popular game will give New York players more chances to win.”

 

Lottery officials said, “Money in the prize pool is allocated by percentage to prize tiers and distributed based on the number of winners for each tier. If there is no top prize winner, the top prize money is added to the second prize.” They added, “The overall odds of winning any prize is 1 in 8.77. Complete prize and odds information is available on the Lottery’s web site at nylottery.ny.gov.”

 

According to lottery officials, the New York Lottery continues to be North America’s largest and most profitable lottery, contributing $3.38 billion during the fiscal year 2019-2020 to help support education in New York State. The lottery revenue is distributed to local school districts using the same statutory formula applied to distribute other state aid to education and accounts for both a school district’s size and its income level. Larger, lower-income school districts receiving proportionately larger shares of lottery school funding.

 

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) Standard rates may apply.