Big lottery winners may be out of luck as tickets set to expire
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The clock is ticking.
Lottery officials in both California and New Jersey say two unclaimed winning tickets – each worth around $250,000 – will soon expire if their luck-struck owners don’t redeem them soon.
In New Jersey, state officials say one Mega Millions ticket, sold at a Wegmans super market in the central part of the state for the Oct. 5, 2012, drawing, will expire if the ticket holder doesn’t claim the prize by Oct. 5.
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That ticket matched the five winning numbers, but not the Powerball. The winning sequence for that drawing was 8, 9, 16, 32 and 39 with a Mega Ball number of 15 and a Mega multiplier of 3.
In California, a winning Powerball ticket, purchased May 15 at a San Jose gas station, will reportedly expire Nov. 11, if not redeemed.
That ticket was traced to a Capitol Shell gas station at 1601 N. Capitol Ave, and matched five winning numbers, but missed the Powerball multi-state jackpot number, KTVU.com writes.
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In the case of the California ticket, the still-unclaimed prize amount of $256,317 would go to the state’s public school system if the ticket holder does not turn in the winning ducat, officials told KTVU.com