A Lotto Max lottery ticket holder in Ontario has just eight days remaining to claim a 100,000 Canadian dollar prize before it expires.
The winning numbers were drawn on August 29, 2025, but no one has come forward to collect the payout, according to news outlet insauga. The lucky ticket was purchased for an additional game that required the player to match the last six of seven digits in exact order.
Under Canadian lottery regulations, players are given exactly one year from the date of the draw to validate winning tickets and claim their cash. With the 12-month window closing, the unclaimed fortune will be lost permanently unless the ticket holder steps forward within the final eight days.
Ontario Lottery Deadline Nears for Unclaimed Cash
The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, the government body that manages provincial gaming, issued a public reminder about the fast-approaching cutoff date. Officials warned that if the winner does not act quickly, the entire sum will be forfeited.
Tony Bitonti, a spokesman for the lottery corporation, acknowledged that major prizes larger than 10,000 Canadian dollars rarely remain unclaimed, though he noted that such situations do occasionally happen.
Ontario is Canada's most populous province, and Lotto Max draws take place twice weekly across the country. Unclaimed prize money from Canadian lottery games is typically returned to the national prize pool to fund future promotions and bonus draws.
South Carolina Player Wins After Sudden Porch Urge
The ticking deadline in Ontario follows another remarkable lottery story in the United States, where a resident of South Carolina won 500,000 dollars after following a sudden hunch.
The American player was sitting on the front porch of his home when he felt an unexpected and irresistible desire to buy a lottery ticket. Acting on the strange feeling paid off when his ticket hit the half-million-dollar prize.
