TRENTON (Feb. 18, 2025) – In sports they often say that when you win, act like you’ve done it before.

With big lottery prizes, that’s not always easy. The allure of the $1,000,000 Ultimate Spectacular is that there are nine top prizes On Tuesday, Feb. 11, a New Jersey Lottery player found the first of those prizes, a $30 ticket at the Big Pantry Food Market, 858 Amboy Ave., in Perth Amboy in Middlesex County.

The winner is accustomed to big paydays, having captured a $10,000 prize a “few years ago.” But, nothing like this.

“I had a friend buy the ticket for me. I had told them that ‘any game would do,’” said the winner while claiming the prize at the Lottery office last week. “When I scratched, I saw a 1 and the 0, 0…I thought it was wrong. I can’t see so good, so I called my daughter. She checked it on her phone!”

The million-dollar prize is in the form of an annuity. Players have the option to accept the cash value of the prize, which is $595, 300.

More About the New Jersey Lottery

Since its inception in 1970, the Lottery has contributed nearly $33.7 billion to the State, helping to support many worthwhile programs and services. Lottery profits currently help bolster the public employee pension system under a 30-year agreement signed into law in 2017.