Time has almost run out for a lottery winner in Canada to claim C$40m (\u00a321.4m) in prize money, according to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation. <\/p>\n
The winning ticket will expire on Wednesday “unless the rightful ticket holder comes forward”, OLG said.<\/p>\n
The corporation said the Lotto Max jackpot ticket was purchased a year ago at a retailer in Grey County, Ontario. The county – which includes the Blue Mountains and Owen Sound – is a popular tourist destination, which means someone may have bought the ticket and forgot to check it after coming home. <\/p>\n
OLG told CTV News that the “sad part” was that the ticket had not been checked on the OLG app or at the store. It expires at midnight. <\/p>\n
“We’ve been waiting, almost a year. It’s going to be a year in a little less than 24 hours,” Tony Bitonti, the media relations coordinator for OLG, told CTV. <\/p>\n
OLG said the winning numbers for the jackpot are 06, 14, 17, 19, 26, 43, 45, with Bonus Number 27.<\/p>\n
The lottery group said players should check places like clothing pockets, handbags, backpacks, wallets and vehicle glove compartments to try to find the ticket. <\/p>\n
If it expires, the lottery will keep the $40m prize for future games.<\/p>\n
If the 28 October 2025 prize goes unclaimed, it would not be the first time. <\/p>\n
On 28 June 2022, someone in Scarborough, Ontario, won a $70m Lotto Max draw, but no ticket holder ever came forward. OLG said at the time that 2,700 people called and emailed about the ticket – but not one of them was the winner. <\/p>\n
Atlantic Lottery – another government-owned corporation that manages lotteries – told Canadian media that about one per cent of prizes go unclaimed, often much smaller sums. <\/p>\n
Last week, an Alberta resident won Canada’s largest-ever lottery jackpot for $90m. The winner has yet to be publicly identified. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Time has almost run out for a lottery winner in Canada to claim C$40m (\u00a321.4m) in prize money,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-816813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}