Matt Doyle reporting...
A one million dollar lottery ticket bought at the Ideal Mart in New Orleans expires this week, potentially becoming one of the highest jackpots to ever have not been claimed in Louisiana.
Lottery spokesman Dustin Annison says if you have the winning ticket from the August 25th drawing, high tail it to Baton Rouge.
“Whoever holds the winning ticket has until 5 o’clock to claim the prize at Lottery headquarters on Laurel Street in Baton Rouge.”
Lottery players have a 180 day deadline to claim their prizes if they hold a winning ticket.
And it’s not the first time in the last twelve months someone has let the clock tick down on a life changing amount of money…
“It happens on occasion. If you will remember back in November I believe there was a 1.8 million dollar lotto jackpot that was claimed with about a week or two remaining.”
There’s a procedure in place if that ticket is not claimed by someone by the 5PM Thursday deadline. Annison says it’ll be recycled back into lotto accounts, and used in other promotions and jackpots…
“By statute all unclaimed prizes won go back into the unclaimed prizes fund, which we use for payoffs on scratch offs, and player promotions.”
The winning number for the August 25th drawing was 20-25-54-57-63 and the Powerball number was 08.
