LOTTERY officials have issued a stark warning to 12 winners who have yet to come forward for a prize worth $300 million overall.
Players are being strongly advised to check their tickets for a game that launched recently.
Players are being strongly advised to check their tickets for a game that launched recently[/caption]
The lottery always puts a lot of money on the line, but 12 players in the Massachusetts Lottery could be walking away from something huge.
In a game launched on May 13, 12 players won a massive $25 million each in the Mega Money lottery.
These lucky winners managed to beat the odds, but it a right now, it will all be for nothing.
So far, nobody has come forward to claim yet.
If they don’t by a certain date, they will lose the chance and the money will never be theirs.
The $25 million prizes would be given out as $50k instalments over the next 20 years if the player chooses to take it in annuity.
Other Mega Money games have been a bit more successful with people coming forward, per the official website.
Another $25 million game had four players in it, and one has actually claimed the cash.
This game was also launched on May 13, and there are three lottery players still to claim.
The third and final Mega Money game has had the same success rate as the first one, a bad one.
Out of the three people who have won the $25 million in that game, none of them have made themselves known.
MONEY TO SPARE
There are plenty other games still open with players who have not taken the cash they have won.
Another unsuccessful game taking place right now is in the $4 million Bonus Money game that had 10 players in it to start.
Out of this winner total, only three of them have taken the money, and seven are still out there.
Lucky lottery numbers – fact or fiction?
The U.S. Sun spoke exclusively with professor of mathematics at Davidson College, Tim Chartier, who revealed the truth behind lucky numbers.
Scooping up a jackpot prize in a lottery game such as Powerball or Mega Millions involves correctly guessing a series of numbers.
Many players swear by certain numbers, sticking with digits such as birthdays, anniversaries, or ages – but do these numbers statistically carry the luck that players believe they do?
According to Chartier, they do.
“I think a number is lucky if you have fun playing it and it improves your experience of winning,” he said.
“The big lotteries are, statistically speaking, a chance to dream of being a multi-millionaire or even billionaire. If playing a certain number heightens that experience, then yes!”
However, the lottery expert clarified that aside from the feel-good implications of playing your “lucky numbers,” no number is truly lucky when it comes to the lottery.
“All numbers are equally likely,” said Chartier.
He explained that even though all numbers are equally likely, some may seem to appear more often.
For example, rolling a six-sided die six times does not guarantee that you will roll each number exactly once.
In the Diamond Deluxe game worth $15 million each, five out of the eight players who have a winning ticket are still a mystery, too.
But this doesn’t mean every game is largely unsuccessful in finding the winners.
In the Merry & Bright Blowout worth $500, there are far fewer players who have not come forward than have.
Out of the 11,088 who have won, there are only 41 who have not come forward.
This means an overwhelming 11,047 have taken their money.
It is often the games worth less that see more winners come forward, because more winning tickets are given out.
To check out every active game in the Massachusetts Lottery, you can head to the website.
