Virtually every week after Thursday’s eye-watering $100 million Powerball draw, the mega-prize cash — the equal third-biggest ever received by a person winner in Australia — remains unclaimed. Officers have revealed the fortunate recipient bought the ticket from Sydney’s japanese suburbs at a Bondi Junction newsagent.
Apart from that, little is thought concerning the new multimillionaire. A number of theories have begun to emerge, together with that the winner might even be a vacationer, however with no registered participant particulars linked to the ticket, The Lott nonetheless has no manner of contacting them — and might solely wait and hope that somebody quickly realises they’ve grow to be one of many nation’s richest people.
Now that a number of days have handed, chatter has been mounting on-line over whether or not there will be a redraw. However chatting with Yahoo Information Australia on Tuesday, Anna Hobdell, a senior government at The Lott, mentioned that is not fairly how the sport works.
Will there be a redraw in Powerball’s unclaimed $100 million prize?
Anna mentioned, really, the winner has a number of years to assert their prize.
“The thriller division one winner has six years to assert their $100 million prize in New South Wales. Fortunately, most winners come ahead inside every week or two, and we hope that is the case for this division one winner,” she mentioned.
She mentioned that, extremely, as a basic rule throughout Australia, “unclaimed prize cash have to be returned to the neighborhood in some form or type”.
“This may be with neighborhood donations, bonus attracts and participant promotions,” Anna defined, including that The Lott will go to nice lengths to trace down the winner earlier than this turns into vital. “We actually collate all obtainable proof, together with ticket buy particulars — ticket kind, when bought, the way it was paid for — and any CCTV footage,” she mentioned.
“We might be unable to launch any CCTV footage as this could breach the winner’s privateness. Nonetheless, this proof can help any misplaced and broken ticket claims a participant might make.”
Whereas it isn’t but been every week, Anna mentioned this serves as a well timed reminder to punters to register in the event that they’re contemplating enjoying.
It is not the primary time an Australian hasn’t realised they’ve received massive. In 2018, a $55 million Powerball prize remained unclaimed for 175 days till a Melbourne participant finally got here ahead.
“Somebody out there’s strolling round with a ticket value $100 million, and they may not even understand it,” Anna mentioned.
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