And i am here asking for only 1 million dollars....

I heard the store received 2,000 dollars only? Here in Georgia the store gets 25,000 for selling the winning ticket... MY gosh this people are so stingy....

It hurts me to see that they willing to charge 50 dollars for a raffle ticket, and yet they're not willing to give the winning tickets no one claims and form a sweepstakes...They could have use 19 million dollars and break it down into 19 1-million dollars and give it out as sweepstakes...

"If you think about it, Taxes, Damns & the Stock market, are in a way, forms of lottery..."

I have said it before.

This is another case where if lottery tickets had your ID in the computer for that ticket the lottery could contact you. Having your ID in the computer for the ticket should be proof enough if you lost the ticket.

At least have it on a voluntary basis if you do not like the idea.

Looks like someones 19 mil down the toilet.

That's insane. I take care of my lottery tickets as if it were actual money. The person who won the 19 Mill could be retired by now, but nope.

MAYBE THE PERSON die or something wrong . that is just too too much money to let go just like that?????????????????

OK, I give up, where do I get this Exact Order Wheeler for STR/BOX and how much is the vig to use it? Anyway, again, I don't go to Newark to play Lotto, or even to play tiddlywinks, being that no offense but it's a little dangerous there not to mention overcrowded and congested. I can't even find this TWENTY7FOUR store or whatever on the Google satellite maps. My friend has a stack of unchecked tickets but it's a slim chance they played in Newark at that time at that store. I know someone indirectly who won the 6 recently which I thought was this one but apparently not. It makes me crazy that they suddenly tell us days before the deadline, when they could have said something early on when there was a better chance of finding the ticket. By now if it were dropped it would have long been eaten by a snowblower and the ink washed off etc. Was the store afraid people would dig around their Dumpsters OR is the Lottery afraid that someone will claim the prize when they want to keep it themselves? If it were somewhere safer I'd have gone looking for it myself. Anyone I ask says they don't remember playing there at that time and that "geez, that was a year ago, I can't remember that far back!" And most of the time you could go on the njlottery site and guess what it says "There are no unclaimed prizes, SORRY!~"

Not a bad idea, JAP69, although it isn't the state's responsibility to notify the winner.  I just don't know if I'd want to furnish my personal information and it would also inconvenience the retailers who are mainly convenience stores. 

On the other hand, it would be good PR for the retailer to keep that information for its customers. 

"Mary & Bob Jones, who have been drunk and incoherent for 6 months get a special call from Bubba's Market"

whattabouthat!!!!!!!

......"WOW"......!

Their's still time for the Lucky Lottery Player who bought the Winning Lottery Ticket at the "24 Seven" convenience store in "Newark, NJ" to come forward and Claim their Prize.

Come on people, why does no one state the obvious. The people who run the lottery don't want winners. They are business. Nuff said, eh?