Check Your Tickets: Two $50,000 Powerball Winners Near Expiration
Posted on: June 8, 2026, 03:23h.
Last updated on: June 8, 2026, 03:23h.
- Play Powerball in Indiana? You’d be smart to take another look at your previous plays
- Two tickets in Indiana remain unclaimed, with each worth $50,000
Two Powerball tickets each worth $50,000 are set to expire and become worthless pieces of paper in the coming weeks.
Indiana’s Hoosier Lottery is encouraging Powerball players to review their tickets, as two big wins remain outstanding.
Lottery officials say a Powerball play for the Christmas Eve 2025 drawing was sold at the Love’s Travel Stop in Terre Haute. The play matched four white balls and the red Powerball to win the game’s third-tier prize of $50,000. The numbers for the drawing were 4, 25, 31, 52, 59, and the Powerball of 19.
A week later, a Powerball ticket for the Jan. 3 drawing was sold at the Payless Liquors store in Southport. It too matched four white balls and the Powerball for a $50,000 prize. The numbers that night were 18, 21, 40, 53, 60, and the Powerball of 23.
Indiana’s lottery law requires winners to redeem their prizes within six months of the game’s draw date. That means the Terre Haute Powerball ticket expires on Monday, June 22. The Southport ticket must be claimed by Thursday, July 2.
Lottery Alerts
Each year, tens of millions of dollars of lottery winnings go unclaimed. When that happens, the unclaimed winnings are reallocated to the programs that the state lotteries benefit.
Lotteries go out of their way to prevent tickets from going unclaimed by regularly posting notices about major wins nearing expiration. The public messages often result in a lost ticket being found and cashed.
In April, the Texas Lottery alerted the public about a $78 million Lotto Texas jackpot that hadn’t been cashed. Just days before the ticket was to expire, the winner came forward and redeemed the prize through a South Dakota-based trust.
In May, the New Jersey Lottery reminded players about a $5.9 million outstanding prize that was nearing termination. The winner said they searched their house for the ticket after hearing the news that a multimillion-dollar jackpot was nearing expiration.
Knowing that a $5.9 million prize payout could be on the line, he checked every corner before finally going through his closet and checking every pants pocket possible. After checking a few pairs of pants, he finally found a crumpled Pick-6 ticket from last May,” a release from the New Jersey Lottery detailed.
The Pick-6 ticket was redeemed just eight days before it was to expire.
Unclaimed Lottery Wins
The largest lottery prize in the United States to ever go unclaimed occurred in 2011.
Despite warnings from the Georgia Lottery, a ticket sold at a Pilot Travel Center in Tallapoosa for the June 29, 2011, drawing expired. The ticket was worth $77 million.
In 2002, a Mega Millions ticket sold in New York at the Kings Plaza Newsstand in Brooklyn hit the jackpot for $68 million. The ticket was never redeemed.
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