$250,000 Mega Millions Ticket Expires

It may not be a multi-million dollar Mega Millions Jackpot, but who couldn't use an extra quarter mil? With LottoGopher we check your numbers for you, so you'll never miss that prize! But at least the money goes to a good cause. Here's the story reported by WTVR.

UPDATE: $250,000 Mega Millions Ticket Expires

Winning Ticket Bought in October is now worthless.

A winning Mega Millions ticket worth $250,000 has expired. The deadline to redeem the ticket was 5:00 p.m. Monday. CBS 6 contacted the Virginia Lottery as soon as the deadline passed, and we were told no ticket holder came forward.

The unclaimed cash will now go to the state literary fund.

Original Story:

Whoever bought a Mega Millions ticket in Chesterfield County won a quarter of a million dollars and may not even know it.

The Virginia Lottery says a $250,000 winner was purchased October 13th, but the winner still hasn't come forward. If the ticket isn't redeemed by Monday at 5pm, it will expire.

The Lottery says it was bought at the Chevron Corner Mart on Ironbridge Road across from the county courthouse.

The winning numbers were 17-31-34-45-51 and the mega ball was 24. Read the whole story...

Unclaimed $796,000 Winning Lottery Ticket Must Be Claimed

This Mega Millions winning lottery ticket must be claimed today! Check your tickets! Here's the story reported by ABC.

BENICIA, CA (KGO) -- A golden ticket is about to turn to dust, unless someone acts fast.

California lottery officials are urging every lottery player in Benicia to spend the day checking their old tickets because someone is still holding a Mega Millions ticket worth $796,000, but it must be turned in by 5 p.m. today.

The ticket was purchased at the CVS Pharmacy on 2100 Columbus Parkway in Benicia on Sep. 29 of last year.

The winning numbers are 45-21-50-25-2 and the Mega number is 21, the only number the ticket didn't have. Read the whole story...

Times up on a £3,681,197 prize...

What a shame. This lucky multi-millionaire is missing out. If he used LottoGopher, this would never happen. Here's the story reported by www.strathspey-herald.co.uk.

TIME - and luck - has run out for the holder of a winning Lottery ticket, which may well have been bought in the strath.

The search for the ticket holder, who had matched all six numbers, has been building in intensity in the past few weeks, with National Lottery players being urged to to check and double check their tickets.

Camelot Group, operator of The National Lottery, has announced that the £3,681,197 prize from the Lotto draw made back on Wednesday, September 23 last year, has remained unclaimed more than 180 days after the draw took place.

All the money, plus the interest it has earned, has now passed over to the Good Causes. The ticket-holder bought their Lotto ticket in the constituency of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey and the deadline for claiming the prize was at 5.30pm on Monday this week.

A National Lottery spokesperson said: "Unfortunately, I can confirm that the ticket-holder did not come forward within the deadline to claim their prize and has now sadly missed out on this substantial amount of money. To avoid this unfortunate situation happening again, I would urge all National Lottery players to check their tickets on a regular basis. Read the whole story...