California Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $200K to expire Monday

Comment #5

barbos — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:41:48 GMT

Well our unclaimed champion is $28 million super lotto plus ticket in 2003.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080929/news_1m29lotto.html

I guess this one is not that much pain.

Comment #4

Dollar419 — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:47:59 GMT

I can only guess this scenario but sometimes out of town visitors to CA may buy tickets and take it back across state line forgetting about it--six months is very long time not to redeem a ticket unless they officially lost it or threw it away by accident--unfortunately that happens a lot

Comment #3

kingssean — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:04:56 GMT

Damm! How could one make such stupid mistake. this money could change one lives. I hope this doesn't happen for the recent powerball

Comment #2

four4me — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:28:11 GMT

In Maryland any tickets that aren't claimed, the money goes in to a pool for promotions like raffles and bonus drawings.

Maybe California's lottery rules about unclaimed tickets are different.

Comment #1

RJOh — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:20:29 GMT

With California budget problems, $200,000 is just a drop in a large bucket but every little bit helps.

California Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $200K to expire Monday

Lottery Post — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:09:58 GMT

A lottery ticket worth more than $200,000 that was bought in Coronado, California, remains unclaimed, and lottery officials yesterday warned that the prize will expire in three days.

The winning Mega Millions ticket was sold Feb. 4 at Avenue Liquor on Orange Avenue near Ninth Street, California Lottery officials said.

It hit five winning numbers 1, 27, 28, 35 and 40 but missed the Mega number, 6.

The ticket, which is worth $211,387, will expire at 5 p.m. Monday, officials said. If it is... [ More ]