Anonymous Powerball winner running out of time to come forward to claim $150,000 prize bought at a supermarket
TRIPLE check your lottery tickets because a huge Powerball prize will expire soon if no one claims it.
The $150,000 ticket wasboughtat a supermarket and will be void in just weeks.
ThePennsylvaniaLotteryis urgently warning players to pull out their old tickets and recheck the numbers.
A winning $150,000Powerballticket sold in Lycoming County – around 150 miles from Philadelphia – last December.
It was purchased at Weis Markets on Route 54 in Clinton Township near Montgomery, per lottery officials.
The winning numbers were 1, 24, 27, 31, and 62. The Powerball was 20.
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The unclaimed winning ticket matched four of five white ball numbers and the Powerball to win $50,000.
However, the player opted to pay $1 extra for the Power Play option.
The Power Play multiplier drawn was three, which multiplied the prize to $150,000.
The anonymous winner must act quickly before the cash is no longer available.
They have until Wednesday, December 11 to file a claim with the Pennsylvania Lottery by mail or at a lottery office.
If the $150,000 goes unclaimed, it will remain in the lottery fund to support programs benefiting older Pennsylvanians.
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Another winning Powerball ticketworth $1 million has yet to be claimed.
It was purchased inIllinoisfor the October 16 drawing.
The numbers were 4, 30, 39, 44, and 60, and the Powerball number was 11.
The lucky million-dollar winner matched all five numbers but missed the Powerball to score their $1 million prize.
POWERBALL: WAYS TO WIN
MATCH:
- Powerball = $4
- White ball + Powerball = $4
- Two white balls + Powerball = $7
- Three white balls = $7
- Three white balls + Powerball = $100
- Four white balls = $100
- Four white balls + Powerball = $50,000
- Five white balls = $1 million
- Five white balls + Powerball = Grand Prize
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They have one year from the drawing date to claim their cash.
The ticket was purchased at the Roberts Quick Stop on North State Route 54 in Roberts, Illinois – around 100 miles south ofChicago.
There was a total of four $1 million winners from the October 16 drawing.
Another $1 million ticket was bought in Illinois, and two more were sold inCaliforniaandWashington.
Check your numbers for other unclaimed lottery prizes.
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Four Powerball prizes worth $250,000remain unclaimed and all the tickets were bought in the same state.
Plus, a mystery winner is still holding on to anunclaimed $1 million Mega Million ticket.
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