Nearly $10 million in Louisiana Lottery winnings go unclaimed every year

Comment #19

rcbbuckeye — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 12:54:10 GMT

Try going on Louisiana lottery website and click on Pick 4. That have a chart that shows what you won if your number is drawn.

Comment #18

Lisas5953 — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 06:43:33 GMT

Are you giving me information on what I asked

Comment #17

Lisas5953 — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 06:39:18 GMT

would like to know if I did pick 4 24 straight box at $1.00 and got numbers not exactly but said don't have to be exact what do I win first time player

Comment #16

HaveABall — Wed, 15 May 2019 06:36:56 GMT

Oh, well then the Louisiana Lottery Headquarters is welcome to send me these $10 million dollars in unclaimed prizes still up for grabs. I'm always available to spread and spend that money around.

Comment #15

Coin Toss — Tue, 14 May 2019 02:06:11 GMT

Maybe the swamp people found out lottery tickets are good 'gator bait and have been feeding them with tickets

Comment #14

Stack47 — Mon, 13 May 2019 22:37:04 GMT

Yep that's one of was thinking about.

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Todd — Mon, 13 May 2019 18:48:32 GMT

Here's the $100,000 winning Powerball ticket you might have been referring to: https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/168590/960649

(The post right under that is from the same person, a $5,000 winner.

Comment #12

noise-gate — Mon, 13 May 2019 17:56:52 GMT

It s quite possible that some lottery players in Louisiana treat playing the game like some professional anglers. You know the Catch release group, some lottery players in Louisiana elsewhere will play, but will not check. They enjoy the journey, but not the arrival. Some lottery players are wired differently.

Comment #11

music* — Mon, 13 May 2019 17:13:13 GMT

Groppo, You are welcome.

I mention to the clerks that California pays one million dollars to the store.

I do not promise any gifts. I may start tipping them a couple of dollars. The gift I give him or her will be remembered.

I thank the players who do not collect because the winnings will go to good causes.

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Comment #10

Stack47 — Mon, 13 May 2019 17:06:30 GMT

, but who knows why they did it for years and will continue to do it.

Comment #9

Stack47 — Mon, 13 May 2019 17:04:36 GMT

There was a poster a few years ago that said he bought multidraw pick-5 tickets that expired the day before his numbers were drawn. Been awhile since the second PB prize was $100.000; had a former poster brag about winning that.

Comment #8

Groppo — Mon, 13 May 2019 16:54:18 GMT

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Thank you, Music*.

That's all sad, but true. I'd rather those people didn't play lotto games at all, but . . . . .

(I mean how would it be if a winning ticket that never showed up, happened to have been tossed out in someone's carbage ?, which I'm sure has happened.)

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Comment #7

Big Joey — Mon, 13 May 2019 15:31:32 GMT

$100,000 was over a decade ago before it changed.

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maximumfun — Mon, 13 May 2019 14:57:43 GMT

I would rather never know, than finding out I missed the deadline on collecting...

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TheMeatman2005 — Mon, 13 May 2019 14:44:02 GMT

People play because they feel that someone has to win, so why not let it be them. But after they have won, they just don't check their ticket/s.

What's worse.....winning and not knowing because you never checked the ticket or finding the ticket one day after it expired and seeing you could have collected a jackpot prize

Comment #4

TheMeatman2005 — Mon, 13 May 2019 14:38:07 GMT

Matching the 5 white balls in Power Ball pays $1 mil($1,000,000), not $100,000

Comment #3

music* — Mon, 13 May 2019 14:35:01 GMT

These players do not have a system or habit of storing their tickets. Then they do not pay attention to the results of the games.

A ticket worth $51.7 million was not claimed in 2012. I believe and guess it was in Indiana. I saw this on LUCKY an Amazon video.

Some past winners have stuffed their tickets into their car consoles. Never checking them. Off they go flying away in the wind. LOL

Comment #2

Big Joey — Mon, 13 May 2019 14:28:47 GMT

On the flip side of the coin, the same as my neighbor who had a multidraw Powerball ticket. It expired without her realizing it, and the next drawing after it expired, she had the 5 white balls for $100,000

Comment #1

Raven62 — Mon, 13 May 2019 12:27:24 GMT

Why Play? If you're not going to Check your Ticket(s) and Claim what you Won

Nearly $10 million in Louisiana Lottery winnings go unclaimed every year

Lottery Post — Mon, 13 May 2019 11:51:54 GMT

An unclaimed $1 million lottery ticket sold at a gas station near North Rampart Street in August, 2018 just expired in February, but there are millions of dollars in unclaimed prizes still up for grabs.

The odds of winning the Louisiana Lotto is 1-in-3.8 million, but you don't have to win the jackpot to get a hefty pay out.

We've had four winners this year, and one of them is for $10,000 and no one has claimed it yet, Richard Tallo, owner of Carwash Depot in Ponchatoula, said.

Tallo is... [ More ]