LOTTO players have been told to check their coat pockets and glove boxes for a ticket lying around worth $50,000.
The winner has less than a week to come forward before the prize is gone for good.
AlamyFBC6XH A pair of Powerball lottery tickets for the 1.6 Billion dollar jackpot on January 13 2016 a record jackpot[/caption]The prize was won at a draw held in Louisiana Meraux Food Store on December 16 last year.
The player matched four white balls (Match 4), landing them the $50,000 prize.
If they had selected the the Power Play feature, their winnings would have doubled to $100,000.
But the prize won at the store on 2004 Paris Road, Chalmette will expire on June 14.
That same December day, the Grand Prize was won at a draw in Colorado – and it too remains unclaimed.
The lucky player can receive a whopping $2,000,000 after they landed a Match 5 (five matching balls) and applied Power Play, therefore doubling the amount.
This prize will also expire on June 14.
Powerball is an American lottery game held in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
It is overseen by the Multi-State Lottery Association, which runs other large jackpot games like the Mega Millions.
Players pick five “white balls” from a pool of 69 and one “Powerball” from a pool of 26 – a combination that makes every jackpot win a rarity.
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338, while the odds for the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350.
Meanwhile, a ticket worth $276,186 was won at a North 5 draw held in Minnesota on May 31.
The player bought the ticket at The Corner Store in Inver Grove Heights, a suburb in the Twin Cities area.
The Minnesota Lottery says that The Corner Store will receive a $1,000 bonus for selling the jackpot-winning ticket.
North 5 is a Minnesota-only lottery game where players choose five numbers between 1 and 34.
To win the jackpot, a player must match all five numbers drawn in a single play.
The prize fund is said to be heavily weighted towards the jackpot, as matching four out of five numbers only yields a $50 payout – despite odds of 1 in 1,919.
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