NJ Lottery Pick 6 jackpot highest in 4 years

Sep 13, 2018, 8:28 am (12 comments)

New Jersey Lottery

$16.7 million drawing tonight

By Todd Northrop

New Jersey Lottery Acting Executive Director James Carey is urging New Jersey Lottery players to get their Pick 6 game tickets as early as possible in advance of the Thursday, September 13 drawing for the $16.7 million jackpot.

This is the largest Pick 6 jackpot since June 2014, and the fourth largest in 10 years. The jackpot has been growing since February 19, 2018 and is ready to be won soon by a lucky New Jersey Lottery player. The lottery is urging players to buy their tickets early to avoid a last-minute rush.

Lottery Post publishes a history of jackpots for the game at its New Jersey Pick 6 Jackpot History page.

Since the first Pick 6 ticket was sold on May 9, 1980, it continues to be a popular lottery game in New Jersey, providing opportunities for players to win millions of dollars with drawings held twice a week — on Monday and Thursday evenings.

Each Pick 6 game ticket costs one dollar per play. For an additional one dollar, players can add the Xtra feature which increases non-jackpot prizes by the multiplier number drawn. Xtra also adds a $2 prize for matching just two of the six numbers drawn. Players get a chance at the Pick 6 jackpot by selecting six numbers from a field of 1 to 49 or they can opt for a Quick Pick.

The big drawing takes place at 7:56 pm tonight.

"We're looking forward to meeting the next Pick 6 jackpot winner very soon. However, it's nice to know that — even before the winning numbers are drawn tomorrow night — this jackpot roll has already paid enormous dividends for our residents with more than $16 million returned to the State to support programs related to education and state institutions," Carey said.

In the previous Pick 6 drawing held on Sept. 10th, 12 players matched 5 of 6 numbers for a $3,387 prize. Two of those tickets were purchased with Xtra, multiplying the prize to $13,548.

The winning numbers for the Monday, Sept. 10th drawing were 2, 5, 17, 19, 30, and 33. The Xtra multiplier was 4.

In addition to the second-prize winners, 794 ticketholders matched 4 numbers for a $48 prize, and 119 others won $192 each with the addition of Xtra. 14,193 players matched 3 numbers and won $3.00 each, with 1,901 others winning $12 each with the addition of Xtra. 13,645 ticketholders each won $2.00 for correctly matching two numbers with the addition of Xtra on their purchase.

All New Jersey Lottery game winning numbers and drawings for the Pick 3, Pick 4, Jersey Cash 5, Pick 6, Cash4Life and 5 Card Cash games are published within minutes of the drawings at Lottery Post, on its New Jersey Lottery Results page.

Lottery Post Staff

Comments

gregs241's avatargregs241

Hey Todd ! big jackpot right where you are!!!  GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!

TheMeatman2005's avatarTheMeatman2005

Nyw Jersey Lottery Acting Executive Director James Carey is urging New Jersey Lottery players to get their Pick 6 game tickets as early as possible in advance of the Thursday, September 13 drawing for the $16.7 million jackpot.

The tickets have misprints and the article has a typo.

music*'s avatarmusic*

The New Jersey Lottery is very lucky this year, 2018. I found two past winners using the Search box and numbers:  320455 for Richard Wahl   and  320842 for Tayeb Souami 

 Must be something in the water! LOLBig Smile

Think's avatarThink

I wonder if this is some kind of economic indicator...

Michigan just had its biggest Fantasy Five Jackpot ever and now the Michigan 6/47 has its 6th highest jackpot in the last ten years!
On top of that, the Michigan Super Raffle is the best Raffle Michigan has had to date.  I am in on the 6/47 and Super Raffle here.

It is too bad we can't buy tickets by phone or over the internet...Sigh

Good Luck to everyone on NJ tickets tonight!

Bleudog101

Quote: Originally posted by Think on Sep 13, 2018

I wonder if this is some kind of economic indicator...

Michigan just had its biggest Fantasy Five Jackpot ever and now the Michigan 6/47 has its 6th highest jackpot in the last ten years!
On top of that, the Michigan Super Raffle is the best Raffle Michigan has had to date.  I am in on the 6/47 and Super Raffle here.

It is too bad we can't buy tickets by phone or over the internet...Sigh

Good Luck to everyone on NJ tickets tonight!

Think...I had sent an email to the MI lottery (don't know if you read my post or not sometime ago).  I asked them to please put a beginning and ending date for folks like me who play for 15 weeks when we travel through.  They did respond and said it was a good idea and would consider it.  I called them too and they said we're not working on that.  Even emailed IGT, not sure if they had your state or Scientific Games.  It is the former and they said they can't force a state to do it which I understand.

Anyway good luck with your 6/47, PB or MM!!  I might forsee a trip in my future to Lansing!

Quinto's avatarQuinto

9.25.17 is was 16.4M

Todd's avatarTodd

Nobody hit tonight, so the jackpot rolled to $17.3 million.  Nice!

noise-gate

As much as l support the PB & MM jackpots, they always seem out of reach. When that happens, which is often, l always go with Plan B: Our State Lottery. That puppy presently sits at a cool $12Mil after taxes, in a word, it's doable.  Going for the Low hanging fruit is always an option.

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msharkey2001's avatarmsharkey2001

Almost got myself 5 sets of numbers for 26 draws each when I was down in Jersey a few weeks back, but instead decided to get the same amount of lines and draws for the Connecticut Lotto! draw game. True the Lotto! jackpot is considerably smaller at just under $6 million currently, but it's a 6/44 game which obviously has better odds than NJ's 6/49 pick 6 game. Besides I already have season tickets for a 6/49 game anyhow (Massachusetts Megabucks Doubler).

ironically my state game, Tri States Megabucks Plus also is building a huge jackpot at just shy of $11 million. That's the biggest jackpot for this game since 2010. Of course I'll be getting 5-10 lines for this game every time until it's won.

RGebhard55

This is why i love this site. I had no idea the lottery got this big. And thats sad because i live in NJ

JADELottery's avatarJADELottery

We downloaded the entire Jackpot History from the LP.

There appears to be some errors in Change data at 2006-12-25, 2008-12-29 & 2014-12-29.

 

Year

Month

Day

Jackpot

LP Change

Actual Change

Δ LP and Actual

2006

12

18

7500000

500000

500000

0

2006

12

21

2000000

-5500000

-5500000

0

2006

12

25

2200000

2200000

200000

2000000

2006

12

28

2000000

-200000

-200000

0

·

·

·

·

·

·

·

2008

12

22

3000000

300000

300000

0

2008

12

24

3200000

200000

200000

0

2008

12

29

3500000

0

300000

-300000

2009

1

1

2000000

-1500000

-1500000

0

·

·

·

·

·

·

·

2014

12

22

8600000

400000

400000

0

2014

12

26

8800000

200000

200000

0

2014

12

29

9100000

0

300000

-300000

2015

1

1

2000000

-7100000

-7100000

0

Bleudog101

Quote: Originally posted by Todd on Sep 13, 2018

Nobody hit tonight, so the jackpot rolled to $17.3 million.  Nice!

I see it jumped up another $400G.  Get your ticket Todd; we want to read about your winning experience.

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