Check your ticket: Time is running out for an unclaimed $100,000 NC lottery prize
.jpg "“We hope this winner finds the ticket this weekend...there’s a big check waiting for them,” one lottery official said. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)")
An unclaimed lottery prize is on the verge of expiring in North Carolina, lottery officials announced.
The Powerball ticket worth $100,000 was bought from Big Al’s Mini Mart on Jackson Street in Roanoke Rapids for the Dec. 8 drawing, according to lottery officials.
Whoever bought the winning ticket has until June 7 to come to the lottery headquarters in Raleigh and claim their prize before it’s too late, lottery officials said in a June 3 news release.
The player matched four numbers off their $3 Power Play ticket and matched the red Powerball number, scoring an extra $50,000, lottery officials said.
Since the ticket was a Power Play, the prize doubled to $100,000 when the player drew a 2X multiplier, according to the North Carolina Education Lottery.
The winning numbers for the drawing were 3-7-33-50-69-24. The odds of matching four white and one red Powerball numbers are one in 913,129, according to officials.
The player must present their ticket at lottery headquarters by 5 p.m. on June 7, according to lottery officials. The deadline is 180 days after the drawing.
“We’ve had people wait till the last moment before so we hope this winner finds the ticket this weekend and gets here to collect the prize before the deadline,” executive director of the lottery Mark Michalko said in a statement. “There’s a big check waiting for them.”
Roanoke Rapids is about 80 miles northeast of Raleigh.
