A ticket sold in New Jersey for Thursday's Cash4Life lottery game is worth $1,000 a week for the rest of the winner's life.

The second-prize ticket for the multi-state game was sold at Sam's Day-nite food store on River Road in Lakewood, state lottery official said Friday.

The lucky Lakewood ticket matched five numbers but not the Cash Ball. The winning numbers were 17, 23, 30, 49 and 55. The Cash Ball drawn was 1.

If the winner wants all the money in a lump sum, the prize is $1 million.

The odds of buying a a second-prize ticket with a $2 ticket are 7,282,016 to 1.

No one matched five numbers and the Cash Ball - the prize for doing that is $1,000-a-day for life or $7 million if a winner chooses the cash option. That's a 1 in 21,846,048 shot.

New Jersey had a grand prize Cash4Life winner on Aug 8. The ticket was purchased at at Krauszer's on Saint Georges Avenue in Rahway.

Cash4Life is played in Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. Drawings are held every Monday and Thursday.

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