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Wanted: Missing Lotto Winners

Wanted: Missing Lotto Winners

NZ Lotteries is on the hunt for missing winners all around the country – and we’re pretty sure they’ll be happy to be found!

A Lotto First Division prize of $666,667 sold at Templeton Convenience Store in Christchurch for the draw on 17 November, 2012, is still outstanding, and earlier this year, United Video Gore sold a Strike Four prize of $85,589 which is yet to be claimed.

Amazingly, there are six outstanding Winning Wheel winners still missing. The tickets were sold at Royal Oak Mall Lotto, Auckland; Fresh Choice Merivale, Christchurch; Whitcoulls Cuba Street, Wellington; Mangere East Post & More, Auckland; Parklands Dairy & Lotto, Auckland; and Countdown Dargaville – with the first one set to expire in June this year.

This is a great reminder for all Lotto players to check their drawers, couches, cupboards, cars, books and coats for any unchecked tickets.

Also to check the Winning Wheel serial number on the ticket – with a minimum value of $100,000 and a maximum of $1 million, plus a weekend package away, it’s a great prize to win.

Tickets expire a year after the draw. The largest prize that expired unclaimed in recent times was a $3 million Lotto prize that was sold in Masterton in early 2003.

Up to three percent of all NZ Lotteries’ prizes are unclaimed in an average year. The unclaimed prizes are transferred to the prize reserve fund where they are used to fund jackpots and promotional prizes.

Twenty cents from every dollar spent on Lotto goes back into the community through the NZ Lottery Grants Board – supporting community, artistic, recreational, cultural and environmental groups throughout New Zealand.

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