Less than two weeks for the winner to come forward
By Kate Northrop
There isn't much time left for a Kentucky Lottery player to claim a winning Powerball ticket worth $1 million, which is set to expire later this month.
Whoever is holding a $1 million winning Powerball ticket in Kentucky better step forward to claim it soon or else risk losing out on the prize for good.
Kentucky Lottery officials announced Wednesday that a winning Powerball ticket purchased at Pilot Travel Center on Pendleton Road in Pendleton will officially expire on Mon., Jan. 15.
However, the winner actually has less time than that. Since Lottery headquarters will be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Mon., Jan. 15, the ticketholder must bring it to the Kentucky Lottery Corporate office in Louisville before 5:00 pm on Fri., Jan. 12.
"It's rare that someone holding a $1 million Powerball ticket fails to cash it in," Kentucky Lottery President Mary Harville said in a statement. "The ticket is expiring in less than two weeks; however, the Lottery is not giving up hope that we will find the owner and award them their prize."
The ticket matched all five white ball numbers — 7, 10, 11, 13, and 24 — to win the game's second-tier prize of $1 million in the July 19, 2023 drawing. If the ticket had matched the Powerball 24 as well, it would have won that drawing's $1.08 billion jackpot.
According to the Lottery, draw game pries must be claimed within 180 days from the date of the drawing.
The $1.08 billion jackpot from the July 19, 2023 drawing was won that night by one ticket purchased in Los Angeles, California. The winner has not yet come forward to claim the prize, but one woman went viral online after a video surfaced of her claiming to be the winner.
If the $1 million winning ticket bought in Pendleton goes unclaimed, the money will return to Kentucky's Unclaimed Prize Fund, which supports the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship (KEES).
Not me, long time since I played there. 22 miles away from here.
If they really wanted, the State-run Lottos could figure out who bought the ticket. Obtain video, cross reference credit/debit card purchases, etc.
Perhaps, perhaps not. Doesn't really matter. If a person takes the time and money to buy a ticket, it's not the state lottery's job to spend time and money tracking that person down. It's the buyer who should take the 60 seconds to check the ticket.
The lotteries do post notices about tickets due to expire.
* Stack- better check your overalls pockets, the one hanging on the wall by your 48 Chevy fleetline.
Too many people walking around with Thier head up their a.rse
I know a guy that was running late for a doctor's appointment when he stopped to buy gas and he also bought a scratch off. Because he was in a hurry, he shoved the scratch off in the glove compartment of his car and took off for the doctor's office. A year or so later he was in the process of selling his car, so cleaned out the glove compartment and found a $20 winning scratch off - the very same ticket he had bought on his way to the doctor's office. He had totally forgotten it was there. So it's easy to misplace a ticket.
When he told me he had found that winner, I said "You ought to be glad that it wasn't a million dollar winner and that the game had expired." I cant write here what he said...but it was something along the lines of "Oh FXXX!" G5
What does a.rse mean or stand for anyway? Never heard of it!
Me again, what a night!
What does FXXX mean.
Looked it up in both the dictionary and thesaurus but, to no avail.
Ugh, all this confusion is making me crave my favorite sandwich, liverwurst, tomato, lettuce and onion on rye bread spread with Dijon mustard and accompanied by gherkin pickles and sweet potato chips. And a can of cream soda, moxie or birch beer to boot.
Another term for your butt. (a$$)
Sorry I don't smoke but at least I know what it means now.
But now I have another dilemma what does (a$$) mean? Does it have something to do with money? Like maybe (a two dollar bill)
Hmmm time for an anchovy pizza!
I have a feeling that the winning ticketholder whose ticket is expiring is a very shy person like Rocky's wife Adrian and just figures the $1 mil isn't worth the bother.
Let's face it folks .... what can one do with a mil anyway? Not much!
Id rather have escargot tar tar than a mil what says you my fellow lottery posters?
a.rse is the European way of saying ass. I thought everyone knew that, I guess not...LOL!
He's either trying to be funny or he's not the "sharpest knife in the drawer".
Well the ticket went unclaimed. It was on the news this morning!