Weekend “Big Money” Lottery Winners In New York

This weekend was another lucky weekend for lottery players in New York State.

According to the New York State Lottery, there were several "Big Money" winners from the Mega Millions and Powerball drawings this weekend.

Friday night's Mega Millions drawing led to two "Big Money" $10,000 winners. Two tickets sold matched four out of five numbers and had the Mega Ball. Friday Night's Winning Mega Millions numbers were: 13-33-59-68-70 Mega Ball 08

Saturday's Powerball drawing led to another round of "Big Money" winners. Two tickets sold in New York matched 4 out of 5 numbers and had the Powerball correct, which means that those tickets each won $50,000. Saturday Night's Winning Powerball numbers were: 1-12-14-24-57 Powerball 07

If you were one of the lucky winners from the weekend, you have one calendar year to claim your prize with the New York Lottery. There were no grand prize-winning tickets with either the Mega Millions or the Powerball. Tonight's Powerball jackpot is now up to $235 million dollars. Tuesday's Mega Millions jackpot is now up to $245 million dollars.

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If you are looking for a "lucky" place to buy your next lottery ticket. Here are the top 3 luckiest stores in New York to buy a lottery ticket from. The 3rd luckiest store chain for lottery tickets is Wegmans. They sold 281 big winning tickets since 2012.

The 2nd luckiest store chain is Tops. They have sold over 350 winning lottery tickets of $5000 or more since 2012.

And now for the luckiest store chain to get your lottery ticket from:

7-11

Yes, the convenience store chain has sold over 1000 winning lottery tickets that had a jackpot of $5000 or more.