Six-figure prize might go out the window
By Kate Northrop
There's a winning Florida Lottery Fantasy 5 ticket worth $186,000 laying unclaimed somewhere, and it's set to expire in two weeks.
The Florida Lottery announced on Wednesday that a six-figure Fantasy 5 ticket worth $186,000 is going to expire, and there's not much time left for the winner to step forward.
Someone bought a Fantasy 5 ticket from the Publix grocery store on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach for the drawing on Sept. 16, 2022. The winning numbers were 3, 14, 15, 16, and 34.
The deadline to claim the prize is Wed, March 15, 2023 at midnight, EST.
The Lottery encourages players who may have purchased a Fantasy 5 ticket from this retailer to check their tickets for the Sept. 16 drawing.
Players may validate their winning tickets at any Florida Lottery retailer, but the Fantasy 5 top prize must be claimed at a Lottery District Office, a press release advised.
The odds of winning the top prize in Fantasy 5 by matching all five drawn numbers are 1 in 376,992. Fantasy 5 is a pari-mutuel game in which the top prize pool rolls down to be shared among players who win the second- or third-tier prize if there is no top prize winner.
Winning numbers and prize amounts can be found on Lottery Post's Florida Lottery Results page.
Another careless lottery player,losing a winning ticket. Remember treat all lottery tickets as if they are worth a million. They very well could be!
Who on earth would want to say no to $186,000? (£155,207.70)
It is not that the person does not want $186,000. He or she has either thrown away or forgotten where they put the ticket. You would be surprised how many winning lottery tickets go unclaimed each year in the US.
In 2021 a California woman's winning $26 million dollar Super Lotto Plus ticket went unclaimed because she accidentally left it in her jean pocket when doing the wash. The lottery ticket was destroyed. She went back to the store where she purchased and explained to the manager what happened. She then filed a claim with the CA lottery. The lottery obtained the video of the woman buying the ticket but that was NOT enough for her to still get the money. She also needed a photo copy of the winning ticket front and back which she did not have. The store owner who sold the winning ticket still got their prize of 130 thousand for selling the winning ticket.
Check the local trash site.
Illinois had a million dollar lotto prize expire this week.
Unfortunately it isn't all that uncommon for jackpot winning Fantasy5 tickets to expire.
Since May of 2012 there have been 174 unclaimed Fantasy5 jackpot winning tickets. Most recent was in April of 2022 when a $208,366 winner was never claimed. G5