Dec. 6, 2025, 11:08 a.m. ET
A New Jersey lottery player won a $2.8 million Jersey Cash 5 jackpot on Friday, Dec. 5. It’s the 60th time the lottery game has been won in 2025.
The New Jersey Lottery announced that a Monmouth County ticket matched all five numbers to win the $2,849,336 jackpot.
The winning ticket was sold at One Stop Food Store on Main Street, in the Belford section of Middletown. The retailer will receive a $2,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
It is the largest individual Jersey Cash 5 win in 2025. A record $3.8 million jackpot was won on Oct. 7 when two lottery players split the prize.
The Jersey Cash 5 winning numbers for Dec. 5 were: 05, 10, 17, 33, 38 and 43. The XTRA was 02 and Bullseye was 33.
The New Jersey Lottery estimates the next Jersey Cash 5 jackpot at $150,000 for the Dec. 6 drawing.
Jersey Cash 5 is a daily lottery draw game from the New Jersey Lottery. Players pick five numbers between 1 and 45 and can add the Xtra for a chance to increase non-jackpot prizes by up to five times. The Bullseye gives players another chance to win. Drawings are held seven days a week at 10:57 p.m.
$1 million won in Cash 4 Life
It was a lucky day for Monmouth County as another player in the county won $1 million in the Cash 4 Life game on Friday.
The lottery player matched five numbers, but missed just the Cash Ball. It was good enough for the million-dollar prize. The Cash 4 Life ticket was sold at the Country Farm on Route 524 in Howell Township.
The winning numbers for Dec. 5 were: 34, 44, 50, 51 and 58 with Cash Ball 01.
It is the sixth Cash 4 Life prize of at least $1 million won in New Jersey. In the May 14 drawing, Union County had a top prize $7 million winner by a lottery player who purchased the ticket at the Quick Stop Deli & Grill on Stuyvesant Avenue in Union.
Cash4Life, which is only available in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia, is a daily lottery game. It costs $2 to play with option of adding a doubler (for third-tier prizes or lower) for $1 more.
In the game, a player selects five numbers from one to 60, and also a Cash Ball from one to four. The top prize is $1,000 a day for life or $7 million cash value and the second prize is $1,000 a week for life or $1 million cash value.
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