{"id":362817,"date":"2025-11-07T19:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/362817\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T19:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:10:15","slug":"unclaimed-1-million-lottery-ticket-in-new-york-expires-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/362817\/","title":{"rendered":"Unclaimed $1 million lottery ticket in New York expires soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Mega Millions winner is running out of time to collect their $1 million prize, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nylottery.ny.gov\/draw-game?gad_campaignid=22394693702&amp;gad_source=1&amp;game=megamillions&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADftN0xfSW-RPgz0D78tujxJX3yWC&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiAzrbIBhA3EiwAUBaUdbqRFBLIeVS7-zzqceC0L9hibjEdDs5mAk_bRNERstRYlh7xMhIZEhoCYMUQAvD_BwE&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Lottery<\/a>\u00a0says.<\/p>\n<p>The unclaimed ticket was sold last year at a deli on Long Island, according to the state lottery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ticket won second prize in the Mega Millions drawing on Dec. 13, 2024. The winning numbers were 36-43-52-58-65 and Mega Ball 16, the lotto said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The $1 million ticket was purchased at Cold Cut Express located at 507 Dubois Avenue in Valley Stream and matched five of the winning numbers, according to New York lottery officials.<\/p>\n<p>Since lottery rules state winners have one year to claim their prize, the ticket must be turned in by Dec. 13, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The New York Lottery says the person with the winning ticket should sign the back, put it in a safe place, then call the lottery at 518-388-3370 or visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/www.nylottery.ny.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.nylottery.ny.gov<\/a>\u00a0to find out how to claim the prize.<\/p>\n<p>Mega Millions entries cost $5 each. Players have 1 in 23 odds of winning a prize, but an astronomical\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mega-millions-price-increase-new-rules-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">1 in 290,472,336<\/a> of winning the jackpot. The odds of winning the $1 million second prize are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nylottery.ny.gov\/draw-game?gad_campaignid=22394693702&amp;gad_source=1&amp;game=megamillions&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADftN0xfSW-RPgz0D78tujxJX3yWC&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiAzrbIBhA3EiwAUBaUdbqRFBLIeVS7-zzqceC0L9hibjEdDs5mAk_bRNERstRYlh7xMhIZEhoCYMUQAvD_BwE&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds#odds_prizes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1 in 12,629,232<\/a>, the lottery&#8217;s website says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a player in California won an estimated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mega-millions-jackpot-lottery-ticket-drawing\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">$1.22 billion jackpot<\/a>, one of the largest in the game&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>The current Mega Millions jackpot is up to an estimated $843 million. The next drawing is Friday at 11 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Mega Millions winner is running out of time to collect their $1 million prize, the\u00a0New York Lottery\u00a0says.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":362818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13107,7834,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,175938],"class_list":{"0":"post-362817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-mega-millions","10":"tag-nassau-county","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-valley-stream"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115510000132193368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}