Hermitage store sells $100,000 lottery winner
HERMITAGE, Pa. - Someone who bought a Pennsylvania Lottery ticket at a Mercer County store is a bit richer this New Year.
State lottery officials say a ticket worth $100,000 was sold at the Sheetz at 1650 North Hermitage Road Hermitage.
The prize is part of the lottery’s New Year’s Millionaire Raffle drawing held this past Saturday.
The winning ticket is in addition to four, $1 million top-prize winning tickets sold in Bucks, Erie, Montgomery, and York counties.
The January 2 drawing also awarded 100 prizes of $1,000 and 5,892 prizes of $100, for a grand total of $5,089,200 in prizes.
The $1 million winning ticket numbers selected were: 00185442, 00237745, 00351937, and 00469412. The selling locations, listed in no particular order, will each receive a $5,000 selling bonus:
- Pantry 1 Food Mart, 123 Woodbourne Road, Langhorne, Bucks County;
- GetGo, 6400 Peach St., Erie, Erie County;
- Royal Farms, 1780 Sumneytown Pike, Kulpsville, Montgomery County; and
- Rutter’s, 1520 Pennsylvania Ave., York, York County.
The four, $100,000 winning ticket numbers selected were: 00110823, 00355147, 00448001 and 00492556. The selling locations, listed in no particular order, will each receive a $500 bonus:
- Choice Cigarette Discount Outlet, 448 Pittsburgh St., Springdale, Allegheny County;
- Giant Eagle, 1717 Cochran Road, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County;
- Sheetz, 1650 N. Hermitage Road, Hermitage, Mercer County; and
- Rutter’s, 725 Arsenal Road, York, York County.
A total of 6,000 winning numbers were randomly selected from a range of 500,000 tickets that were sold between Nov. 3, 2020 and Jan. 2, 2021, when tickets sold out.
Prizes must be claimed, and tickets validated before winners can be identified. Millionaire Raffle winners have one year from the drawing date to claim prizes. Players should immediately sign their winning tickets.
Each $1 million top prize must be claimed by presenting a winning ticket at any Pennsylvania Lottery Area Office. PA Lottery Headquarters in Middletown remains closed to the public at this time. Claims for the four $100,000 prizes can be filed at any Lottery Area Office or at a Pennsylvania Lottery retailer. Millionaire Raffle tickets worth $1,000 and $100 can be claimed at Lottery retailers. Currently, all PA Lottery Area Offices are open to the public between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., by appointment only. Learn how to make an appointment by visiting palottery.com or by calling 1-800-692-7481.
This was the Pennsylvania Lottery’s 15th year offering the New Year’s Millionaire Raffle. This game has created more than 120 new millionaires since it debuted in 2005.
