Whoever bought a Powerball ticket worth $1 million at a store in Jacksonville has until 5 p.m. on Aug. 2 to claim the prize. The ticket, sold at the WilcoHess at 6995 Western Boulevard, matched all five white balls in the Feb. 4 drawing.
The winning numbers for the drawing were: 15-23-43-45-56 and 7 for the Powerball. The odds of matching five out of five white balls are 1 in 5,153,633.
To raise awareness of the expiring ticket, the lottery placed a countdown clock in the store’s window on Thursday afternoon. The clock will tick down to zero unless the $1 million winner arrives at lottery headquarters in Raleigh before 5 p.m. next Thursday.
Draw game tickets expire when they go unclaimed for 180 days after a drawing. By law, when that happens, half of the money goes toward prizes awarded to future winners. The other half would benefit education.
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Can we please release the exact time the ticket was purchased now that the time has expired on the winning ticket? I have seen other lotteries release the time the ticket was purchased even before the ticket was claimed. Why all the secrecy! You said you wanted to find the winner...