SACRAMENTO – A ticket purchased one month ago in Covina still has not been claimed. The ticket hit five of six winning numbers in the January 23 drawing – missing only the Mega number – and is worth $178,764.
The ticket was purchased from the 7-Eleven located at 1275 West San Bernardino Road. The winning numbers are 20, 17, 2, 27, 28, and the Mega number is 7.
The California Lottery wants to remind winners to sign the back of their tickets, keep tickets in a safe place and contact Lottery officials or visit your local Lottery District Office (www.calottery.com/AboutUs/Locations) as soon as possible. Tickets worth $600 or more must be mailed to a Lottery District Office or claimed there in person. Winners have 180 days from the date of the draw to claim prizes.
More than 95 cents of every Lottery dollar is returned to the community in the form of contributions to education, prizes and retail commissions. The California Lottery contributes at least 34 cents of every dollar that players spend on Lottery products to public education and returns more than 50 percent of sales to players in the form of prizes. Since its inception in 1985, the Lottery has contributed nearly $21 billion to California schools out of total sales of more than $56 billion. Retailers benefit too, earning $3.6 billion in compensation since 1985.