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

Aug 21, 2009, 1:09 pm (5 comments)

Mega Millions

CORONADO, Calif. — 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 not claimed, the prize money will be go to state schools.

Tickets that are worth more than $600 must be submitted along with a claim form by mail or in person at any lottery office. Prizes are mailed in four to six weeks.

Union-Tribune

Comments

RJOh's avatarRJOh

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

four4me

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.

kingssean

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

Dollar419's avatarDollar419

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 lotDisapprove

barbos's avatarbarbos

  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.

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