A Monsey Woman Just Won $5,000 a Week for Life on Set For Life — the $10 Ticket We Ranked No. 1 in New York

SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. — A Rockland County woman is set to collect $5,000 a week for life after buying a single Set For Life scratch-off at a small Spring Valley storefront. The win, confirmed by the New York State Gaming Commission, landed on the $10 game that our Smart Score had ranked the No. 1 ticket in all of New York on the very day the ticket was bought.

For us, that is the part of this story worth telling. The jackpot itself is luck — a roughly one-in-four-million ticket out of tens of millions printed. But the game it landed on was no surprise at all. If you had been reading our rankings on June 17, Set For Life was sitting at the very top of the board, ahead of every other scratch-off in the state.

The win

The winner, Henya Fried of Monsey, bought her ticket at retailer #73280 in Spring Valley, a modest Main Street storefront that appears in New York's lottery sales records as Aim's Laundromat and in the state's win record as Aim's Convenient Store (37 South Main Street, the same retailer number for both). She scratched a top prize on Set For Life and took it to the New York Lottery's Long Island Customer Service Center in Plainview to claim on June 24. The prize pays out as $5,000 a week — $260,000 a year — for life, a lifetime annuity the Lottery values at roughly $3.24 million.

The Gaming Commission confirmed the win and the purchase location. New York doesn't make a habit of publishing exactly which store sold a given top-prize ticket, which is part of why this one is worth a closer look — and why we can tell you with confidence which game it landed on, and exactly how we had that game ranked the day it was bought.

The game: Set For Life ($10)

Set For Life is one of New York's longest-running $10 scratch-offs, and for most of June 2026 it was the single best value on the board by our numbers. Its top prize isn't a one-time check — it's a lifetime income stream, and the game launched with just six of them.

• Top prize: $5,000 a week for life ($260,000 a year), valued at about $3.24 million (six total at launch)
• Odds of any prize: about 1 in 3.95
• Odds of the top prize: roughly 1 in 3.9 million per ticket
• Print run: about 48 million tickets, roughly three-quarters sold by mid-June

By our numbers, Set For Life is genuinely one of the best games in the entire state — not because of who just won on it, but because of how much value is still locked inside the remaining print run. That is exactly what our Smart Score is built to measure.

How we had this game ranked the day she bought it

Every day, we re-score every active New York scratch-off and rank them by remaining value. Here is where Set For Life sat on our board in the run-up to the Spring Valley win — pulled straight from our archived daily ranking snapshots, nothing added after the fact.

The pattern is hard to miss. On June 17, the day the winning ticket was bought, Set For Life was the No. 1 ranked scratch-off of any price in all of New York, with a perfect Smart Score of 100 — and it was the No. 1 $10 ticket every single day through the claim. Anyone following our rankings that day was being pointed straight at the game that would, one week later, set a Monsey woman up for life.

Our data caught the win as it happened

We snapshot the New York Lottery's remaining-prize data every single day. Those snapshots are time-stamped, and ours logged the exact moment Set For Life's top-prize count changed:

The public count dropped from three to two on June 24 — the exact day Henya Fried claimed in Plainview, showing up in the numbers in real time on a game we already had at the very top of the list.

Where Set For Life ranks now

Here is the good news for anyone wondering whether the big prizes are gone: they aren't. The Spring Valley win was just one of six. Two of the six $5,000-a-week-for-life top prizes are still unclaimed, sitting somewhere in the remaining print run.

Today, Set For Life still carries a Smart Score of 100 and remains the No. 1 ranked $10 scratch-off in New York — in fact, still our top-ranked ticket of any price. The claim narrowed its lead over the rest of the field, because a top prize coming off the board is real value lost. But with most of its print run already sold and two lifetime prizes still live, it remains exactly the kind of game our rankings are designed to surface.

What to take away as a player

1. Follow the game, not the address. The Spring Valley store is not "lucky" — a store that sold a jackpot is no more likely to sell the next one. The value lives in the game: which top prizes and big mid-tier prizes are still on the board.
2. Set For Life still has the goods. Two of six lifetime top prizes remain, on a game that is still our No. 1 ranked $10 ticket.
3. Check the rankings before you buy. Our Smart Score updates daily on official New York Lottery data, so you are always looking at where the value is today.
4. Play within your means. Even the best-ranked $10 ticket is still a bet with a house edge. Treat it as entertainment, never as income.

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