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It's a surprisingly common scenario: Dream of winning the lottery ...
buy ticket ... lose ticket. Whether those little slips of paper end up
on the floor of the car or shoved into the back of a drawer, lost
tickets add up to billions of dollars in unclaimed prizes that Americans
leave on the table every year. And once wins expire, they're gone for
good.
Jerry from Springfield, Ohio, is one of the lucky ones. He was looking
through his wallet last month for his doctor's card when his search
turned up something else - a rolled-up Powerball ticket that was almost
six months old.
When Jerry purchased the ticket last year, his brother was fighting
cancer and Jerry was regularly driving him to treatment appointments. On
one such trip, Jerry picked up the ticket from a gas station and put it
in his wallet. And there it stayed until it was just days away from
expiring (180 days from the draw date in Ohio).
When he came across the ticket, Jerry jumped online to check his numbers
and found he'd matched five. "I thought, this is not a joke! So, I
asked my wife to check the numbers too," he said. She confirmed that the
ticket matched the five main numbers from the October 16, 2019 drawing,
only missing the red Powerball.
Jerry was even more shocked when he checked the prize amount again. "I
think it's $100,000. I went to the website and looked at prizes and lo
and behold it's a million dollars!"
Now Jerry just had one problem - how to claim his prize. With Ohio's
stay-at-home order in place to combat coronavirus, the lottery's offices
were shut.
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