taken from Lotterypost.com:

Winning Powerball ticket sold; buyer misses deadline to collect prize

A little more than six months ago, somebody bought a Powerball ticket at the Quick Mart at the corner of Cherry Road and Heckle Boulevard.

Somebody, somewhere, in the lint trap of a clothes dryer, or maybe on the floorboards of a pickup truck, has a scrap of paper that was worth $800,000.

That scrap is now worthless.

The window for claiming prizes in South Carolina is 180 days.

The unclaimed prize is the largest in the five-plus years of the S.C. Education Lottery, said Holli Armstrong, a lottery spokeswoman.

Somebody who didn't know he had a fortune cost Jimmy Mulltani eight grand. The lottery gives retailers who sell winning tickets a bonus of 1 percent of the winning ticket.

Mulltani owns and runs the Rock Hill store where the ticket was sold. He came from India, to make a better life for himself and his family. He works countless hours.

"Bad," Mulltani said last week about the uncashed ticket, in the ultimate understatement.

A 57-year-old machinist from tiny Woodruff, S.C., south of Spartanburg, picked the same winning numbers on that same day the Rock Hill ticket was sold. He cashed his ticket. He told the lottery his occupation was going to be "retired machinist."

The Li'l Cricket store where he bought the ticket got the $8,000 bonus.

"And we all got an $800 bonus," said Diane Wray, a clerk at that store. "I used it for Christmas."

That man from Woodruff, single with seven kids, did not want his name released by the lottery.

A man from Chester socked away enough of the $1 million he won a couple years ago to pay for his grandchildren to go to college, and more.

A guy named Wendell Hughes from Fort Mill won $1 million in lottery money last fall. His two sons' college is paid for, and more.

The $800,000 from the unclaimed ticket will go to the state treasurer's office lottery account.

"I hope whoever bought that ticket never finds out it was him," said Hughes, the Fort Mill winner, "because it will break his heart."