SACRAMENTO – Two months after the drawing, a winning Fantasy 5 ticket in the Southern California town of Newhall remains unclaimed. California Lottery officials are asking players to check and re-check their tickets and ask friends to do the same as they are eager to congratulate the winner – or winners – of the $108,183 jackpot.
The ticket was purchased for the August 20 draw from Mayer’s Freeway Shell at 25340 North Chiquella Lane in Newhall. The Fantasy 5 ticket successfully matched all five winning numbers – 7, 8, 14, 18 and 39.
The California Lottery recommends winners sign the backs of their tickets, keep tickets in a safe place and contact Lottery officials or visit your local Lottery District Office (http://www.calottery.com/AboutUs/Locations) as soon as possible.
For the fiscal year 2006-2007, more than $29 million in prizes went unclaimed. Players can always check past winning numbers by visiting the Lottery’s Web site at www.calottery.com, select the game played and click on the link to “Winning Numbers.”
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 more than $20 billion to California schools out of total sales of nearly $55 billion. Retailers benefit too, earning $3.5 billion in compensation since 1985.