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Search On For Missing $1 Million Lottery Ticket

Unclaimed Ticket May Have Been Lost

POSTED: 2:22 pm PST December 11, 2007
UPDATED: 3:09 pm PST December 11, 2007

Massachusetts lottery officials are launching an all-out search to find the winner of a $1 million scratch ticket jackpot.

Video: Missing $1 Million Lottery Ticket

It's a $5 Jubilee 25 ticket and lottery regulations require that tickets must be cashed a year after their purchase.

It's unclear whether someone actually bought the winning ticket or if it was simply lost before being scratched.

“The ticket could have fallen behind a store counter or been used to clean up a spill or be at the bottom of someone’s book bag unscratched,” Lottery spokesman Dan Rosenfeld told the Boston Herald.

The game is now closed out and the search for the missing ticket is unprecedented. It will require lottery investigators to reconstruct the paper trail of where the ticket was delivered.

“It’s a bit surprising people leave this money on the table,” Rosenfeld said. “We want our players to take their winnings when they’re lucky enough to win.”

Any unclaimed winnings are ultimately rolled back into the prize pool, which was $3.2 billion this year.


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