By: Najla Alexander
NJ Lottery officials announced that New Jersey Lottery players in Camden and Monmouth counties each won $500,000 Scratch-Off prizes on Monday, September 8.
According to NJ Lottery officials, Country Farms, 704 Blackwood Clementon Rode in Pine Hill, sold the winning Camden County prize on a $10 Neon 9’s ticket.
The prize was the first won in the newly released game; Two other top prizes remain, lottery officials said. 
“I was always told to go with my first guess,” the player said when collecting the prize last week at the New Jersey Lottery office. “That was the first ticket I thought to get when I was in the store. I told myself to get it, but I didn’t for some reason. But this time, I went ahead and grabbed it.”
Pinebrook Liquor & Deli, 1870 Wayside Road in the Monmouth County borough of Tinton Falls, sold the other $500,000 winner on the $10 Shore Thing game, NJ Lottery officials stated. 
The top prize was the second of three available, lottery officials say.