U.S.

$65 Million Apiece

By CBSNews.com staff CBSNews.com staff

November 5, 2000 / 10:31 AM EST / CBS

Two tickets had the right numbers in the $130 million New York Millennium Millions lottery Saturday night, reports CBS Radio News.

The winning tickets were sold in Brooklyn and Wellsburg, near the Pennsylvania border.

"We had 550,000 cash prize winners last evening including not one but two top jackpot prize-winning tickets," lottery directory Margaret R. DeFrancisco told CBS News Producer Kevin Geiger.

"The one in Chemung County, which is in the Southern Tier near Elmira and Corning chose the annuity, which means they will get 26 payments, and the ticket from King's County — Brooklyn — chose lump sum."

So far, said DeFrancisco, no one has claimed the twin $65 million prizes.

"Now we'll sit and wait. First we were waiting to see if we'd have a winner each week, and now we're waiting for the winners," she chuckled. The jackpot rolled over for several weeks without a winning ticket.

"We don't know if this represents one person or a family or a group of people, and we won't know until they come forward. So we have opened the claim centers in Buffalo, Syracuse and New York City today to see if those winning tickets come forward."

The winning numbers were 2, 5, 6, 23, 34, from a field of 50, with a Millennium Ball of 16, from a separate field of 25.

Missed it? There's no second chance for this lottery.

"New York Millennium Millions is finished — we're done with this game," DeFrancisco said, "but I'm sure that, sitting around, we'll be able to think of something else that would definitely appeal to New Yorkers."