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• rgse90

  

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  I know that there are experts here that could answer this question for me. Has any NYS Lottery Scratch off game ever ended with a top prize or top prizes left unclaimed. I am curious if anyone knows of a game or games where they ended and the top prize was never claimed.
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  Quote: Originally posted by rgse90 on Sep 30, 2015

  I know that there are experts here that could answer this question for me. Has any NYS Lottery Scratch off game ever ended with a top prize or top prizes left unclaimed. I am curious if anyone knows of a game or games where they ended and the top prize was never claimed.

  the answer is yes - a recent example is the $2 triple win had 1 top prize outstanding when the game expired last month

   

  but the easiest way is if you go to the NYL instant game report, and you see black bold font for a game, that means the game expired in the last six months and there are top prizes outstanding
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  Many games ended with unclaimed top prizes. I remember about $5 New York Gold, $5 Mother's Day 2013,2014
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  Quote: Originally posted by abjorik on Sep 30, 2015

  Many games ended with unclaimed top prizes. I remember about $5 New York Gold, $5 Mother's Day 2013,2014

  maybe that is why NY didn't do a mother's day 2015 - what about tis the season where currently not a single top prize was even claimed
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  I know the OP is specifically inquiring because of the 1 Million A Year for Life game. The problem with that game as you know is that a retailer needs to scan it as the self service scanners don't accept it. Because this game has a lot of numbers, it is very easy to miss something and throwaway a winner.

  On a number of occasions I've had tickets form this game where I thought was a loser only to check again with fresher eyes and find out it was a winner. I've also had occasions in which I thought I had only won $40 or $50 but after it was scanned by the retailer it turned out to be a $100 winner.

  I cringe to think that someone may have mistakenly thrown away a jackpot winner but it's not out of the realm of possibility and it has happened before with the $1,000 a Week game.

   

  Happy hunting!
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  Quote: Originally posted by Enigmas on Oct 1, 2015

  I know the OP is specifically inquiring because of the 1 Million A Year for Life game. The problem with that game as you know is that a retailer needs to scan it as the self service scanners don't accept it. Because this game has a lot of numbers, it is very easy to miss something and throwaway a winner.

  On a number of occasions I've had tickets form this game where I thought was a loser only to check again with fresher eyes and find out it was a winner. I've also had occasions in which I thought I had only won $40 or $50 but after it was scanned by the retailer it turned out to be a $100 winner.

  I cringe to think that someone may have mistakenly thrown away a jackpot winner but it's not out of the realm of possibility and it has happened before with the $1,000 a Week game.

   

  Happy hunting!

  those have codes on it still - ZAN is 30, ZFN 35, ZAP 40, FTY 50, HUN 100, FVH 500, and losing code loser or big winner over 600
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  Where are those codes located?
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  think they by the serial number below the last line of winning numbers
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  It is very disturbing that for 2 years this game went without a winner and I am just wondering if the ticket was destroyed and/or lost in that time.
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  Quote: Originally posted by rgse90 on Oct 6, 2015

  It is very disturbing that for 2 years this game went without a winner and I am just wondering if the ticket was destroyed and/or lost in that time.

  who knows anymore - want to know what happened w tis the season last christmas where not a single top prize was claimed

   

  new games a week from today (don't know what they are yet)
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  This game is creeping to the end soon with less than 1/2 million tickets left up for grabs. I really think the likely hood of a winning ticket coming out now is more not likely than likely and that sucks for us die-hards who played this game from the start.
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  $10 Franklin's Fortune ended with 2 top prizes not claimed. What a shame for NY lottery!
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  Quote: Originally posted by abjorik on Nov 1, 2015

  $10 Franklin's Fortune ended with 2 top prizes not claimed. What a shame for NY lottery!

  they still have 4 months to cash it (and there no 2nd prizes either) - extreme 8s same case w 2/4 not claimed (but many 2nd prizes left unclaimed)
  
  tis the season the worst offender w all 4 top prizes outstanding as i have said in several other posts
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  I'm sure it's not like they can say that there's this many top prizes and then there not be....

  Take Risks: If you win, you'll be happy.  If you lose, you will be wiser...
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  I never look at the codes. I save ALL my losing tickets and I pay my local retailer a couple of bucks to run the tickets through the machine to ensure it is a losing ticket. I probably have found about $500 dollars over the last 3 years in what I thought was losing tickets to be winners. BUT I do NOT leave the tickets. I wait, watch and verify they are losers or winners and get a receipt on winners to see how much it won for.