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Winning Oregon Lottery ticket expires May 23

May 13, 2008, 10:15 am

Oregon LotteryOregon Lottery: Winning Oregon Lottery ticket expires May 23

Oregon Lottery officials say it's time to double-check your wallet or your purse, or even the sofa, to see if a lottery ticket with the winning numbers was overlooked.

The search is for a winning Oregon Lottery ticket worth $1,000 a week for life, and which is about to expire.

The Win for Life ticket was purchased on May 23 last year in Hood River.  The winning numbers are 06-43-46-51.

It's worth about $670 a week after taxes, or nearly $35,000 a year.

After May 23, 2008, when the ticket expires, that winning ticket is just a worthless piece of paper.

Oregon's Win for Life game is played every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.  Drawings take place at 7:30 pm Pacific Time (GMT-8:00), and the winning numbers are selected by a computerized random number generator.

The largest unclaimed Oregon Lottery prize ever was a $3.5 million Megabucks jackpot for a ticket purchased in Tualatin in June 1996.

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JackpotWanna
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Posted: May 13, 2008, 11:12 am - IP Logged

Very sad story.... $35,000/yr. net is good money. 

    Sandra Dee
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    Posted: May 13, 2008, 1:06 pm - IP Logged

    SmashChairas Redd Foxx would say [may he RIP] "YOU BIG DUMMY!" why in the hottest of hell would you buy a ticket and NOT check it? I got some nerve, I take my 'knowingly losing' tickets and STILL insist my local corner store clerk check it - we go through it all the time him "Sandy, this ticket clearly is not a winning ticket!" -- me "just check it! you never know!" ..
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      ThatScaryChick
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      Posted: May 14, 2008, 4:10 am - IP Logged

      Whoevers ticket it was, is going to lose out on a nice amount of money.

      "No one remembers the person who almost climbed the mountain, only the person who eventually gets to the top."
      ThatScaryChick

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        Posted: May 14, 2008, 7:59 pm - IP Logged

        The largest unclaimed Oregon Lottery prize ever was a $3.5 million Megabucks jackpot for a ticket purchased in Tualatin in June 1996.

        Tualatinouttaluck hehehehehe.

          LckyLary
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          Posted: May 17, 2008, 9:37 pm - IP Logged

          It would be great if they put up this story a month or two after the ticket won, to give the winners more opportunity to know there's an unclaimed ticket floating around and lessen the chance that it got discarded. One time I saw a stray Mega ticket *under a parked vehicle* and *at night* at a local Supermarket and out of sheer curiosity reached under and took it and saw it was for an *upcoming* drawing and I turned it in at the Courtesy desk but I remembered the numbers and turned out it *matched 3 of 5*! I don't know if the person who lost it ever got it back. 

            tntea
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            Posted: May 20, 2008, 8:48 pm - IP Logged

            I have all of mine scanned.   Just incase it turns into a winner after I check it.

            YES WE CAN

              MeFirstYouLast

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              Posted: May 22, 2008, 2:43 pm - IP Logged

              I have all of mine scanned.   Just incase it turns into a winner after I check it.

              Smart person!  Then again, maybe too smart. History has shown that the dumber you are the greater your chances of winning a large amount.  This stary proves the theory is 100% correct.  Only an idiot would buy a ticket, not know how to read it, loose it, or just forget they bought it.  Those are exactly the type you see stand in front of the press and plan on buying a refrigirator with a $250M jackpot!  I-D-I-O-T-S !  These are the same persons who drive into store front windows.  They pre-plan nothing.  Anything beyond the length of their nose are beyond their perception.

                 
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