{"id":54960,"date":"2025-08-09T08:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54960\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T08:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:27:08","slug":"two-day-deadline-to-claim-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54960\/","title":{"rendered":"Two day deadline to claim fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"

An oblivious winner has just two days left to claim a \u201clife-enhancing\u201d lottery prize before the money is returned to players and the community.<\/p>\n

The Saturday Gold Lotto player won just over $670,000 almost seven years ago with a ticket picked up at a newsagent in Helensvale, Queensland.<\/p>\n

In Queensland, winners have a seven-year deadline to claim their prize before the money is returned to players through community donations, bonus draws or player promotions.<\/p>\n

According to The Lott, the winning ticket is the oldest unclaimed lottery prize in Australia.<\/p>\n

The seemingly-unaware winner was one of six division 1 winners in the Saturday Gold Lotto draw 3867 on August 11, 2018.<\/p>\n

The winning numbers were 1, 23, 8, 15, 44, 20, while the supplementary numbers were 11 and 18.<\/p>\n

\"Punters<\/p>\n

Punters have been urged to search every pocket, wallet and drawer for old tickets. Picture: Supplied\/ The Lott<\/p>\n

The Lott spokeswoman Anna Hobdell said the clock was ticking for the mystery punter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re making one final call to all lottery players: now is the time to search every pocket, wallet and drawer,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine discovering after seven years that you\u2019re the mystery division one winner we\u2019re searching for.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe urge everyone to double-check any old tickets as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The entry was purchased at Golden Lucky News on Millaroo Dr in Helensvale, with owner Melanie Zhi noting the area attracts its fair share of tourists.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile most of our customers are locals, we do get plenty of visitors from various places, especially from New South Wales. Honestly, the winner could be anyone,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The prize must be claimed by Monday August 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An oblivious winner has just two days left to claim a \u201clife-enhancing\u201d lottery prize before the money is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,45570,45568,45569,701],"class_list":["post-54960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-community-donations","tag-helensvale","tag-lott","tag-queensland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}