The Texas Lottery is searching for a Mega Millions winner who has only one day left to claim a $1 million prize.
Texas Lottery officials said the ticket, which matched winning numbers 16, 22, 40, 41, and 59, but not the Mega Ball 8, in the Dec. 1, 2017, drawing, will expire at 5 p.m. CDT Wednesday.
The ticket was purchased from Valero Corner Store #1307 in Austin, officials said.
"We encourage our Mega Millions players to take another look at their ticket, check the numbers again and if your numbers match, sign the back of the ticket and contact us," said Gary Grief, executive director of the Texas Lottery.
A ticket holder forfeits any claim to a prize for a draw game after the expiration of the 180th day following the draw date. The deadline may be extended for a period of time for certain "eligible" military personnel. Unclaimed prizes revert back to the state for programs authorized by the Texas Legislature.
Can’t see any of the resident Texans that frequent LP, from committing such a howler. But if they did, would we hear from them, a mea culpa perhaps?
Lots of students there. Maybe one of them bought the soon to be losing ticket.
This would be any LP member's worst nightmare!!
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Yes, it would be, Mr. Bleudog101.
I sure would hate for the winner to lose out on their win, with just a day to go, before the ticket expires.
But, if it does go back to the state, hopefully it'll be used to improve the kids' school lunches.
(unless the cattle rustlers get to the cattle first)
Me? I'm considerably far away from Texas.
I've driven through there a couple times, though.
The number of cows (in Amarillo, anyway) far out-number the people.
Mr. Groppo
I believe that the City of Austin, TX is one of the places that a winner who lives anywhere else in Texas must visit and claim their prize there.
In January 2018 Texas gave a winner of $1,000,000.00 or more the right to select anonymity for the first year after claiming.
I am a Californian so I might be wrong here.
On a different track of thought, a lottery ticket must be thought as a small piece of paper that could be worth millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions of dollars!! With this in mind, I think that I will claim my prize the next business day following a major win.
I will make copies of the ticket and deliver my ticket to a District Office here in CA. I will have to wait six weeks for the check to be mailed to me.
I told you so!
Subscriptions people!
Music*when you get that obligatory picture @ your California lottery office be sure to cover your face with that cardboard check. I remember someone there doing just that!
Bleudog101, Remember Marvin & Mae Acosta who won one-third of the record PowerBall jackpot of $1.6 billion dollars. They chose minimal publicity. No celebrity photo, No media availability. They moved out of their Chino, CA home the day before claiming their prize.
I do remember that winner who covered his face with the cardboard check. He claimed on April 1, 2015. He wore a shirt with the words, "The Luck of the Jedi I have". The winning ticket worth $425 million was purchased in Milpitas, CA.
wasn't me
We had something similar happen here in Carolina with the Cash 5 a few years back .....I was told when asked about it that they are not allowed to pull the store tape b/c of some privacy issue's.The ticket was bought at a sheetz store here but they could not pull camera's and put the winner(s) on TV to alert them of the win. However much to my amazement Sheetz put a big banner up in that particular store across the front of the wall to have people check their tickets and the date it was bought at that location so I commend them for that at least they tried to help.
If no one comes forward before the sun sets, and they find out later that they misses out on major cash: there is going to be lots of crying in the rain.No trip to Tahiti for the girlfriend, the kids won't be visiting Disneyworld became you low of funds. Oh the horror.
Time is up! It is past the deadline of 5 pm CDT. Has anyone come forward with the winning ticket?
Sounds like the fat lady sang and the money went unclaimed.
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dannyct, You told me [us] what, exactly?
And aren't subscriptions to the lotto, liable for taxes, or recorded for even the smallest win?
I got that tip, right from here, on lotterypost.com, a couple years ago.
I certainly won't gripe, should the unthinkable happen, and I actually win a big prize,
owing more money in taxes, than ever.
But once I got that tip from here, it completely changed the way I felt about lotto subscription services.
A new lesson for all of us should be: Never assume anything. Cover your rear, always.
A man (or woman) can't even be President in this country without assuming that simple lesson.
Mr. Groppo
My Season Tickets-subscription service winnings have never been taxed; they are never that much. I remember Governor Patrick changed the rules to I believe anything over $600 is taxed. Never happened to me yet and don't feel like looking up Massachusetts tax laws. I understand that winnings are reported to the IRS over $60 too, but are not taxed until you go over $1199.
Jackpot wins require a trip to Braintree for amounts of $50K; however I would assume that season ticket holders can only cash in @ their headquarters. Don't worry, I'm using that dirt cheap Attorney in Hanover, MA to take care of the photo-op for me.
Have a great weekend Lottery Post!!