Lucky Lottery Player Wins $576K at Wawa in Cape May County, NJ

A routine trip to a South Jersey Wawa turned into a life-changing $576,800 lottery win last week

Imagine walking into your favorite South Jersey Wawa store for a cup of coffee, and while you're there, you decide to drop a few bucks into a New Jersey Lottery machine...

And you win over half a million bucks.

That would certainly make that cup of coffee the best one that you've ever had.

Winning Ticket Details

Officials with the New Jersey Lottery said that scenario (perhaps without the coffee -- they didn't say) just played out for one lucky person in Cape May County.

Winning lottery ticket sold at Wawa on Bayshore Road in Villas NJ - Photo: Google Maps

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Back on February 26th, someone walked to the Wawa on Bayshore Road in the Villas and left with an extra $576,800 to their name after playing the 100X scratch-off game.

And we did some quick math: if you lose about 40% of your jackpot to taxes (this is New Jersey, after all), you'll still have enough left for over 82,000 large cups of Wawa coffee. That's one cup per day for the next 220 years.

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Other Big Lottery Wins

That $576,800 score was the biggest lottery win in the state last week. Others in the southern half of New Jersey included the following:

$50,000 Powerball win at ShopRite on Route 37 in Jackson, Ocean County
$25,000 Crossword Bonanza win at the Conoco gas station on Broad Street in Woodbury
$10,000 50X win at Wawa on the Black Horse Pike in Blackwood
$10,000 win from the It's Gold Outside game at a mini-mart on River Road in Pennsauken

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Chris Coleman, a South Jersey native, is the brand manager for WPG Talk Radio 95.5 FM and afternoon on-air personality on WPUR Cat Country 107.3 in Atlantic City, NJ. He joined the station in February 1998 and covers news, events, and stories of interest across Southern New Jersey for Townsquare Media. Story tips can be sent to chris.coleman@townsquaremedia.com .