The State gets to keep the money and doesn't pay the retailer!!!!!!!!!! That is bad

Now, would be the time for this particular person to find his/her ticket and.....................after realizing they were the ones holding the winning ticket!!

Shiny Disco Balls...Shiny Disco Balls...

I don't agree with the "1 in 60" thing. Young players certainly don't have 1 in 60. Even considering death probability, this is assuming that all of them are holding many unchecked jackpot tickets, and also assuming that when they kick the bucket their heirs are in such grief that they never recover enough to check whether Uncle Warbux's Pick-6 won anything. Far more likely the ticket was dropped while the person was shuffling their change or lost in a clutter of desk papers and as I say not everyone is aware of missing tickets until right before the deadline. One time recently there was a dropped ticket at the Lottery counter, face-down, and I picked it up out of curiosity because it looked new and sure enough it was for the upcoming Mega Millions drawing and a QP. Had it won and had I not picked it up and turned it over to the clerk, the player would not have recognized the numbers and it would have gotten swept away and a year from now you'd be reading about an unclaimed Mega ticket. (It didn't end up winning, though.) And often I do find discarded winning scratch-offs for small amounts.

What would really suck(and at the same time be funny) is if this person ends up finding it and then checks the numbers, and ends up trying to claim it not knowing he/she had 180 days to claim it and it's now expired.

This is really upsetting!..The store owner should sue the lottery commission for his 1%.

Or 8,000 dollars for selling that ticket. Or better yet...the remaining money should be forfeited to "the other winner" who also picked the same numbers that night. As he was the only one to come forward. So, after the 180 days expired...it seems logical that the other guy should have gotten the whole kaboodle! 

IS THERE A LAWYER IN THE HOUSE?????????  LOL!!

In another story...in new jersey ..a 19 million dollar jackpot will be forfeited in 24 hours if not claimed...but to note is the fact that the store that sold the ticket did get  the commission for selling the ticket. Is something wrong here  with s.carolina. ? Shouldn't all the lotteries have the same rules when considering commissions and or "claim periods' ?

Exactly what do you suppose the retailer should sue for? Following the rules? I've never quite understood why retailers are paid anything other than a modest processing fee for winning tickets (and such a fee should be paid to the retailer that pays the winning ticket rather than the retailer that sold it), but the rules are what the rules are.

As far as giving the prize to a different player, why should they benefit just because somebody else lost out? If there were two winners, then the othe rplayer only won half of the prize. If one of them fails to claim their half it does nothing to change what the other player won or what they deserve. I think unclaimed prizes should go back into future prize pools, but again, the rules are what the rules are. Anyone who wants to know what they are can find out. If they don't like them nobody will force them to play against their will.

Personally I figure someone lost the ticket.  It's the only thing that makes sense to me,  because it completely boggles my mind how anyone could buy a jp ticket and not care enough to follow up and see what, if anything, they won.

To me, it's a totally stupid act to just throw money at the lottery if you really aren't even interested enough in the game to follow upon it. If its of such little importance to a person, why even bother making an effort to buy a ticket?

I don't know if it is true or not, but I have heard stories of people going thru a divorce and not wanting the other half to get any so they hold onto the ticket until the divorce is finalized before claiming the prize.

Few things:

1. People play yards of tickets sometimes, a lot of them QP. THIS IS ALSO WHY I HATE QP BECAUSE YOU DON'T REMEMBER WHAT YOU PLAYED!

2. People get really busy sometimes or distracted. I won and had Jury Duty next day so it was 2 weeks later that I finally checked the ticket. And that was manual pick.

3. It gets windy sometimes in April.

4. Not everyone is a Lottery Post reader. Those who are not may not have been watching the News the 2 days right before the deadline when they got around to mentioning it.

It's just a game... until somebody loses 19MILL.