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August 24, 2009
The clock is ticking. There is little time left. A Mega Millions ticket that is now worth $250,000 will become a worthless slip of paper, unless the winner comes forward and claims his or her prize by August 31.
Someone bought a ticket for the March 3, 2009, Mega Millions drawing at Royal Mart, located at 1113 East Nine Mile Road in Highland Springs. That ticket turned out to be a $250,000 winner. No one has come forward to claim the prize.
According to Virginia Lottery rules, the ticket expires after 180 days, which will occur at 5:00 p.m. on Monday, August 31. The winning numbers for that drawing were 26-32-35-43-52 and the Mega Ball number was 10. The ticket matched the first five numbers and only missed the Mega Ball number. The owner of that ticket needs to contact the Virginia Lottery before the deadline.
By law, all Virginia Lottery unclaimed prize money goes to the state Literary Fund. The Literary Fund is used solely for educational purposes, such as school construction, renovation and teacher retirement funding. Since its inception in 1988, the Lottery has transferred more than $176.8 million in unclaimed prizes to the Literary Fund.
Nearly 95 cents of each dollar spent on the Virginia Lottery by players goes back to the Commonwealth in the form of contributions to education, prizes and retailer commissions. Since 1999, all Virginia Lottery profits have been designated solely to K-12 public school education in the Commonwealth. In that time, the Lottery has turned over more than $4 billion for Virginia’s public schools. The latest annual profits of $455 million currently represent about 6 percent of state funding for public education in Virginia. In 20 years, the Lottery has sold more than $20 billion in tickets, awarded more than $1 billion in retailer commissions and paid more than $10.9 billion in prizes to players.
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