Unclaimed Canadian Lottery Ticket Expires
Despite last minute major efforts to find the winner of a $1 million lottery ticket, Atlantic Lottery was forced to announce that the ticket had officially expired.
The winning Lotto Max ticket was purchased in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on August 6th, 2010.
The deadline to claim the prize was last weekend, on Saturday, and until the last moment, Atlantic Lottery was hoping that the winner was pulling a stunt and would step forward at the last minute.
The Atlantic Lottery Corporation issued a called for Atlantic Canadians to "spread the word" several weeks before the expiration date.
"Did you stash a Lotto Max ticket in your beach bag, use it as a bookmark in between the pages of your summer read or leave it in the back pocket of your favorite pair of shorts?" asked Sophie Robichaud of the lottery. "With only two weeks remaining to claim your $1 million prize, now's the time to begin searching."
However, despite the ALC's best intentions nobody came forward and the ticket expired.
"My records go back as far as three years," said a spokeswoman for Atlantic Lottery, Sarah McBeath, "And in the last three years, no one has ever let a major prize of $1 million or more expire."
Money Returns to Lottery Fund
The winning numbers of the winning ticket were 06, 23, 26, 30, 34, 36 and 41.
Hopefully, the winner will never know that he or she was so close to becoming an instant millionaire because the frustration of a 'so-near-and-yet-so-far' situation is too much to imagine.
The full amount of the prize pool - one million dollars - will be deposited into a special fund and the money will be used for future competitions and bonuses on lottery games.
