LOTTO players have been urged to check their tickets as someone is sitting on a Powerball ticket worth $100,000.
The prize won at a Colorado drawing in March will expire in several hours.
A Powerball ticket worth $100,000 will expire on September 8[/caption]
The ticket was bought on March 12, 2025, at Kum & Go Maverick, which is located on 317 E Main Street in Rangely, Colorado.
The player won the $100,000 prize after they landed a Match 4 (four matching white balls) plus Powerball – with the sum then doubled by Power Play.
The prize must be claimed by September 8 or the money will return to one of Powerball’s jurisdictions.
Two other Powerball prizes won in March also remain unclaimed.
A $50,000 prize won at Louisiana Murphy Express 8739, 455 Hospital Road, New Roads, in Lousiana on March 22 has not yet been claimed.
The player has until September 18 to come forward.
Meanwhile, a $50,000 prize won at a draw in Missouri on March 26 also remains unclaimed.
The draw took place at Missouri West County Phillips 66, 14195 Clayton Road, Town and Country.
The player has until September 22 to claim their prize before it expires.
In both cases, the winners landed a Match 4 plus Powerball.
The odds of winning the $50,000 prize are one in 913,129.18, according to the Powerball website.
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are one in 292,201,338.
This makes lottery players slightly more likely to win the Powerball jackpot than the Mega Millions one, which has odds of one in 302,575,350.
It comes as the Powerball jackpot has now risen to $1.3 billion from $1.1 billion after nobody was able to win it last week.
If a player wins it, they will need to choose between taking it in a lump sum or in annuity.
A lump sum means the player takes home their earnings in one go, but as a result, they will be forced to give up a huge chunk of their jackpot.
According to the Powerball website, the cash value of the $1.3 billion jackpot is set at $589 million before taxes.
If somebody wins the prize, they will be forced to give up $511 million on the spot.
Alternatively, the winner can opt to take the jackpot in annuity, meaning they will receive portions of the money over a period of time.
For the $1.3 billion jackpot, this would mean receiving payments of $5 million over the next 30 years.
