Check your wallet: Someone won $1.5M in CA lottery, and the ticket is about to expire
UPDATE: A winner claimed the $1.5 million Powerball prize Monday, April 24, before the ticket expired, according to the California Lottery.
The original story is below:
A lucky Powerball player in California won $1,556,855 million, but they never claimed their prize.
Now that prize is set to expire April 24 if no one comes forward with the winning ticket, the California Lottery said in an April 18 news release.
Lottery officials are asking the public to check their wallet, junk drawer or car for the missing ticket that matched all five white balls: 19, 36, 37, 46 and 56. It missed the red Powerball number 24.
The $1.5 million winning ticket was bought at a Mobil gas station in Los Gatos for the Oct. 26 drawing, officials said.
It was one of the two winning tickets that matched five numbers and missed the Powerball number. The first winning ticket was bought in Southern California, and that player has claimed it.
Players have 180 days from the date of the draw to claim the prize if they match all five numbers in Powerball.
“If nobody submits a claim in time, the $1.5 million prize money will instead go to public schools in California in line with the Lottery’s mission,” lottery officials said in the release.
Powerball is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times vary from state to state. Drawings are broadcast Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:59 p.m. ET and can be streamed online.
This story was originally published April 18, 2023 at 4:21 PM.
