Two very lucky ticket-holders shared the incredible £5,275,282 Lotto jackpot in last Wednesday’s Lotto draw but one hasnt come forward to claim their winnings yet.
The remaining ticketholder has earned £2,637,641, and the hunt is on to find the lucky winner.
The newly-minted millionaire bought their winning ticket in retail, and can check their paper ticket in-store or on the National Lottery app.
The winning Lotto numbers on November 6, 2024, were 03, 06, 14, 19, 32, 35 and the Bonus Ball was 17.
Andy Carter, Senior Winners’ Advisor at Allwyn, operators of The National Lottery, said, While one of these two winners has since claimed their £2.6M share of the jackpot prize, we’re urging all Lotto players to check their tickets to see if they are the other Lotto millionaire we’re looking for.
With all major prizes (£50,000 and above) won in retail, if a valid claim isnt received in two weeks after the draw, the area where the ticket was bought is released to the public.
All major wins claims must be made within 180 days after the win (Picture: Shutterstock)Once a ticket-holder has called and had their claim validated and paid, they can decide whether or not to remain private or go public and share their winning news.
The winner who hasnt come forward yet does have 180 days from the day of their draw to come forward and claim their money.
Lets hope they come forward in time. Last month, a EuroMillions player bought a ticket, won a million, and then lost it because they never took their winnings.
In a cautionary tale for all of us if we win a multimillion pound lottery jackpot, they left it too late to claim their cash and now it will be given to charity instead.
It’s a scenario almost as bad as the man who lost millions of pounds of Bitcoin at the bottom of a landfill – and coincidentally it happened just down the road, so the almost-millionaires might even meet in the pub to commiserate.
The winning ticket was bought in in Rhondda Cynon Taf, also near Cardiff in South Wales.
Andy Carter, senior winners’ advisor at The National Lottery, said: ‘Unfortunately, I can confirm that the ticket-holder did not come forward within the deadline to claim their prize and has now sadly missed out on this substantial amount of money.
‘However, the money will now add to the £30m raised each week for National Lottery-funded projects.’
If this was us, we’d rather just never know – and presumably this person didn’t, or they would have said something.
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