Winning Lotto Max Tickets Worth Millions Still Unclaimed In Toronto

One, worth $55 million, is from Friday’s drawing and the other, worth $70 million, is from the June 28 drawing.
In addition to these grand prizes, a prize-winning encore ticket from yesterday’s drawing, valued at $100,000, is waiting to be claimed after being sold somewhere in Chatham-Kent.
The next Lotto Max draw will take place on Tuesday.

WHAT HAPPENS IF NO ONE QUALIFIES THE PRIZES? 
In an email to CTV News Toronto, OLG Director of External Communications Tony Bitonti said it’s unusual for a valuable winning ticket to go unspoken.
If a ticket holder doesn’t show, Bitonti said unclaimed money will be returned to players through future bonus games or promotions.
He said that while there are a number of reasons why a winning ticket isn’t cashed, it’s usually because it’s been misplaced or forgotten.
“Many tickets are forgotten in kitchen drawers or jacket pockets (especially when the seasons change).  For example, you buy your ticket on a particularly cold spring day and put it in a jacket pocket, but then the weather warms up and the jacket goes in the closet and the ticket is forgotten,” he said.
With files from Phil Cekura.

title: “Winning Lotto Max Tickets Worth Millions Still Unclaimed In Toronto " ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-28” author: “David Mondragon”

One, worth $55 million, comes from Friday’s drawing, and the other, worth $70 million, was sold on June 28.
In addition to these grand prizes, a prize-winning encore ticket from yesterday’s drawing, valued at $100,000, is waiting to be claimed after being sold somewhere in Chatham-Kent.
The next Lotto Max draw will take place on Tuesday.

WHAT HAPPENS IF NO ONE QUALIFIES THE PRIZES? 
The winner has one year from the date of the draw to claim their prize, meaning they have exactly two weeks from today to become a millionaire.
In an email to CTV News Toronto, OLG Director of External Communications Tony Bitonti said it’s unusual for such a valuable bulletin to win not to be talked about.
If the owner of the $1 million ticket doesn’t show up before the two-week deadline, Bitonti said the unclaimed money will be returned to players through future bonus games or promotions.
“It’s rare that the $1 million prize goes unclaimed, it’s usually the smaller prize amounts that go unclaimed,” Bitonti said.
He said that while there are a number of reasons why a winning ticket isn’t cashed, it’s usually because it’s been misplaced or forgotten.
“Many tickets are forgotten in kitchen drawers or jacket pockets (especially when the seasons change).  For example, you buy your ticket on a particularly cold spring day and put it in a jacket pocket, but then the weather warms up and the jacket goes in the closet and the ticket is forgotten,” he said.
With files from Phil Cekura.