SACRAMENTO – A California Lottery ticket purchased in San Francisco more than four months ago still has not been claimed. The Fantasy 5 ticket matched all five winning numbers and is worth $115,642.
The ticket was purchased for the October 29 Fantasy 5 draw. The ticket was purchased from San Francisco Gifts and News located at 350 California Street, and the winning numbers were 9, 22, 29, 35 and 36.
Winners have 180 days from the date of the draw to claim prizes. This ticket will expire on April 27, 2009. The California Lottery wants to remind winners to sign the backs 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.
Fantasy 5 offers some of the best odds of any California Lottery game. A player wins the Fantasy 5 jackpot simply by matching five numbers out of a field of 39. The top prize starts at $50,000 and can top $500,000 depending on how many times the top prize rolls over (similar to SuperLOTTO Plus® and MEGA Millions®). Winning numbers are drawn every day. Tickets are $1 and can be purchased from any of the more than 20,000 California Lottery retailers (www.calottery.com/locations).
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.