A Brooklyn Player Just Won $10,000 a Week for Life — on the $20 Ticket We Ranked No. 1

NEW YORK — A Brooklyn player is set for life after buying a single $10,000 A Week For Life scratch-off at a corner market in Chelsea. The prize — guaranteed at a minimum of $10,000,000 — landed on the $20 game that our Smart Score had ranked the No. 1 scratch-off in all of New York for the week leading up to it.

For us, that is the part of this story worth telling. The jackpot itself is luck — a one-in-several-million ticket out of millions printed. But the game it landed on was no surprise at all. If you had been reading our rankings in early May, this was the ticket sitting right at the top of the board.

The win

The winner, Jennier Joris of Brooklyn, bought the ticket at The Market on 7th, at 194 7th Avenue in Manhattan — an ordinary corner market in Chelsea, a few blocks south of Madison Square Park. The $10,000 A Week For Life top prize guarantees a minimum payout of $10,000,000; Joris elected the one-time cash option, a single lump-sum payment of $4,170,688 after withholdings.

The New York Lottery confirmed the win and the selling location in its official winner announcement. New York doesn't publish which store sold a given top-prize ticket right away — the announcement landed about a month after the claim — 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 game: $10,000 A Week For Life ($20)

$10,000 A Week For Life is a $20 New York scratch-off released in September 2025. Its headline tier pays $10,000 a week for life, guaranteed to a minimum of $10,000,000 — and the game launched with just three of those top prizes across its entire print run.

• Top prize: $10,000 a week for life, $10,000,000 guaranteed minimum (three printed at launch)
• Odds of the top prize: a one-in-several-million long shot per ticket
• Payout rate: around 71% when the prize hit — above average for $20 games
• Print run: only about 28% sold to date, so most of the value is still in circulation

By our numbers, this was genuinely one of the best games on the board in early May — not because of who just won on it, but because of how much value was still locked inside the remaining print run. That is exactly what our Smart Score is built to measure.

How we had this game ranked

Every day, we re-score every active New York scratch-off and rank them by remaining value. Here is where $10,000 A Week For Life sat on our board in the run-up to the win — pulled straight from our archived daily ranking snapshots, nothing added after the fact.

The pattern is hard to miss. $10,000 A Week For Life was the No. 1 ranked $20 scratch-off in New York every single day from May 9 through May 15, and the No. 1 ranked ticket of any price in the entire state on four of those days. Anyone following our rankings was being pointed straight at the game that, on May 16, made someone in Brooklyn set 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 the top-prize count changed:

The public count dropped from three to two on May 16 — the Manhattan win, showing up in the numbers in real time on a game we already had at the top of the list. The official winner announcement that named Jennier Joris and The Market on 7th did not arrive until a month later, on June 16.

Where the game stands now

Here is the honest update. The win was one of three, and two of the three top prizes are still unclaimed, sitting somewhere in the remaining print run. But the game has cooled since its May peak: as the field around it shifted and its sales ticked up, $10,000 A Week For Life now carries a Smart Score of about 75 and sits mid-pack — around #6 among the $20 games rather than #1.

That is the system working as intended. A game earns the top of our board when its remaining value is unusually high; it drifts back toward the middle as that value gets bought down. We are not going to tell you it is still the best $20 ticket in New York today — it isn't — but it was, on the days that mattered.

What to take away as a player

1. Follow the game, not the address. The Market on 7th 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. Two top prizes are still live. $10,000 A Week For Life still has two of its three $10,000,000-guaranteed top prizes unclaimed — though it is no longer a top-ranked $20 play today.
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, not last month.
4. Play within your means. Even the best-ranked $20 ticket is still a bet with a house edge. Treat it as entertainment, never as income.

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