Winning $1 million lottery ticket expires in days — and no one has claimed NC prize
A North Carolina lottery player scored a $1 million prize — but hasn’t claimed it yet.
Now, the winning ticket is set to expire in about two weeks, officials said in a June 15 news release.
“We want to spread the word about this prize in hopes of finding the winner before the ticket expires,” Mark Michalko, executive director of the N.C. Education Lottery, said in the release. “Sometimes people leave their tickets in a night stand, the glove compartment of their cars and trucks, or tucked away in a wallet.”
In December, the winner went to a Circle K store in Lewisville, roughly 10 miles west of downtown Winston-Salem. Officials said someone there spent $2 on a ticket that won big in a New Year’s Eve drawing for the Mega Millions game.
The winning numbers that night were: white balls 2-5-30-46-61 and gold ball 8.
It turns out, the ticket missed out on a larger jackpot win. But it matched all the white balls, beating 1-in-12.6 million odds to score the $1 million prize, officials said.
In North Carolina, winning ticket holders have about six months to come forward. The Lewisville ticket will expire if the winner doesn’t bring it to the lottery’s Raleigh headquarters before 5 p.m. Thursday, June 30.
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This story was originally published June 15, 2022 at 3:23 PM.
