$16 million Florida Powerball lottery ticket expires Thursday

Comment #31

jamella724 — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 08:53:02 GMT

I wonder if the winner was able to claim his prize? If not, this is really unfortunate, there are so many players who would like to be in his shoes. There are so many cases like this that happened, I hope players will be very careful with their tickets and check their tickets so they would know if they have won prizes.

Comment #30

tnlotto1 — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 21:55:40 GMT

I am the exact same way. I wont even fold my tickets into my wallet because I dont want anything to happen to the numbers or barcode.

Comment #29

maringoman — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 19:30:12 GMT

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I can't even win $1,600 and people are letting $16M expire? NNot good

Comment #28

duckman — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 19:04:21 GMT

It's official, the ticket went unclaimed and is now expired...

Comment #27

ShowMeTheMoney$ — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:38:32 GMT

Don't let the opportunity slip by. It might not come again because the odds are not in your favor.

Comment #26

ShowMeTheMoney$ — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:35:20 GMT

Why play the lottery if you don't check your tickets? It makes no sense to me.

Comment #25

ShowMeTheMoney$ — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:26:42 GMT

Another one bites the dust.

This is a dream come true. But, someone let it slip through their fingers. I'd hate to be that person. I wonder if there was video shown of the winner on the news. They do that in California, and sometimes that really helps find the winner.

Better luck next time.

Comment #24

Arrowhead — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 05:22:19 GMT

I treat every bought ticket for any lottery game as though it's the jackpot winner until proven otherwise. Respect your ticket(s) and your chance to experience a life-changing event.

Comment #23

dallascowboyfan — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:30:05 GMT

Makes you wonder if the person passed away.

Comment #22

RedStang — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:37:34 GMT

Might be in one of those sink holes.

Comment #21

helpmewin — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:02:28 GMT

$16 million

Comment #20

helpmewin — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:01:17 GMT

Comment #19

helpmewin — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:00:55 GMT

yeah really

Comment #18

TNPATL — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:50:15 GMT

Wow amazing this happens!!! Shoot $16 million is a nice amount of money.

Comment #17

Slick Nick — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:12:48 GMT

This to me is just a sign of follishness, ignorance! What's the sense of playing and not checking the ticket. A pervect example is just last night with me. I caught 2 free games with Take 5 which could be a big winner in tonites game. Plus I have a co worker that we split a powerball and mega ticket. On last nights Powerball we caught the powerball, $4.00 dollars. So with that I will buy another powerball for Saturday, and 2 Mega's for tomorrow night. This is all due to a winner we caught. Becau... [ More ]

Comment #16

Nikkicute — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:44:59 GMT

I can't believe it either, just searched and their are two other stories of Florida lotto

looking for winners of jackpots about to expire, the one above mentioned for $50m

and another story for $10m, dang Florida what gives with the missing winners

Comment #15

RJOh — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 06:27:08 GMT

I suppose hearing a jackpot of $20M or less was won isn't enough to get some people concerned to the point of checking their tickets. I wonder how long will it be before a jackpot of $200M+ goes unclaimed.

Comment #14

noise-gate — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 06:14:10 GMT

Your best is good enough Maestro

Comment #13

Arrowhead — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 04:26:53 GMT

It's a shame, but there's just no excuse with the internet and scanning machines in every convenience store/gas station/supermarket, etc.

$16 million---probably about $5-6 mil after taxes? Oh, brother...

Comment #12

Six balls — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 04:26:13 GMT

World's most expensive bookmark.

Comment #11

LottoMetro — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 03:19:59 GMT

The May 25th Powerball was $50 million and split 3 ways (Delaware, Florida, and Louisiana).

Comment #10

mypiemaster — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 03:16:23 GMT

Put out a reward of $10,000.00 or more, and a wanted poster of the person who bought the ticket, especially on social media, and in 48hrs or less, you'll have your answer.

Comment #9

DisplacedLurker — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 03:12:14 GMT

This is going to be a dumb question, but how did this person win a 16 million PB jackpot? Last I recall, 180 days ago, the starting jackpot for PB was 40 million? Maybe I'm wrong, lol.

Comment #8

Artist77 — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:41:34 GMT

I really think some people just rarely play it and then forget about it. I used to play only a couple of times a year (PB only) and when you are at work and are taking papers back and forth to home and back to work, you can forget about a little piece of paper. I was going through some old papers for shredding a month ago and found a PB ticket from 2008. I did have the PB# but no more. I am more serious now since I pick my own numbers and I try to keep them all in my appt. book.

Comment #7

Todd — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:09:10 GMT

I do my best, plenty of dredging ahead

Comment #6

noise-gate — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 00:20:23 GMT

My thought exactly Maringo, snowbird enters a store buys a can of soda or pack of cigarettes asks for one PB ticket and forgets all about it. Flies home to who knows where and all they can think of is eating tuna and playing bingo with old friends. That ticket is an afterthought, probably got tossed into the washing machine with the pair of jeans or shirt.

Todd keeps dredging up these news nuggets that simple have us shaking our heads.

Comment #5

helpmewin — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 00:10:13 GMT

Thats what i always think or a truck driver passing through.

Comment #4

helpmewin — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 00:06:41 GMT

Check Sign your tickets

Comment #3

billionaire2bee — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:33:50 GMT

I cant believe there is soooo many people who are not turning their winning tickets in....you let me win a dollar....boy Im all over it LOL...Check your tickets people

Comment #2

maringoman — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:32:31 GMT

Maybe it was bought by a snow-bird who was just about to hop into a plane to fly north..really sad. I'd rather someone claim and waste the money than never claim at all.

Comment #1

helpmewin — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:07:25 GMT

Another one oh my

$16 million Florida Powerball lottery ticket expires Thursday

Lottery Post — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 22:59:16 GMT

Hitting a $16 million Powerball jackpot is a dream for most people.

But losing a fortune by letting those lottery winnings expire is a nightmare and that's what will happen Thursday if someone doesn't claim the ticket bought in May at a suburban Tampa, Fla., convenience store.

Lottery officials say this will be the largest unclaimed jackpot in Florida since 2003, when someone didn't claim $53 million in the Florida Lotto game.

Neighborhood residents who have been following the lack of a... [ More ]