The string of big New Jersey Lottery wins coming from Ocean County is continuing with one local player hitting a quarter-of-a-million dollar jackpot!

The NJ Lottery Jersey Cash 5 game has been lucky for Ocean County over the past few weeks, with a ticket worth over $150,000 coming out of Waretown, and another big winner, worth over $160,000 being sold in Brick.

But the latest jackpot winner dwarfs those two, with a Jersey Cash 5 ticket that was sold at the Rite Aid on Route 70 in Manchester hitting the grand prize of $256,059.

The ticket was for this past Friday's drawing (May 17th). The winning numbers were:

01, 09, 36, 37, 42

The XTRA number was 02.

So, check those Jersey Cash 5 tickets, everybody, one Ocean County lottery player just had a very lucky weekend!