CARL JUNCTION, Mo. — A Missouri Lotto ticket sold by Sue’s C-Store is worth $7.6 million.
“If you buy Lotto tickets there, please check them closely,” Gary Gonder, director of communications for the Missouri Lottery, said in a statement Monday afternoon.
Susan Goedde, spokeswoman for the Missouri Lottery, said a ticket sold at the store on Fir Road on the outskirts of Carl Junction matched the six numbers in Saturday’s drawing. Only one ticket sold in the state matched the winning numbers, she said.
“No one has claimed it,” Goedde said Monday.
“It is tied with another jackpot for the 10th highest,” she said, referring to the state game. On Aug. 27, 1994, a Kansas City couple claimed a Lotto prize worth $7.6 million.
The winning numbers were 6, 12, 18, 29, 37 and 44.
Goedde said the winner can take the payments over 25 years at $304,000 per year, or $215,840 after taxes, or can take it at as a lump-sum payment of $4.6 million before taxes, or nearly $3.3 million after taxes.
“The best advice would be to sign the back of the ticket and put it in a safe place” until the winner can take the ticket to the nearest Missouri Lottery office, which is in Springfield, Goedde said. Other lottery offices are in Jefferson City, Independence and St. Louis.
“They have 180 days to claim it,” she said.
MISSOURI LOTTO FACTS
* Only one Missouri Lotto ticket has gone unclaimed in the 21 years that the contest has been in place. A $1.7 million ticked sold Feb. 20, 1999, in Springfield was never claimed.
* The last time a Missouri Lotto jackpot was won was Dec. 23, 2006, when an Ironton couple claimed a $3.7 million jackpot with a Lotto ticket they purchased in Jackson.
* This is the 162nd winning Missouri Lotto jackpot ticket sold and the 227th jackpot ticket worth $1 million or more overall since the Missouri Lottery began in 1986. |
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