What would you do if you won a $77 million lottery jackpot? What would you do if you didn't discover that you had the winning ticket until AFTER the deadline for claiming the prize?

Wouldn't know. I never check expired tickets, it would be a silly thing to do.

Actually, they don't want to hear from you, because they can keep the money if it's not claimed.

How farking stupid do you have to be to purchase a ticket and not even bother to check it, especially after they announce that someone won it?

scottydoesntknow: How farking stupid do you have to be to purchase a ticket and not even bother to check it, especially after they announce that someone won it?

Sometimes I'll buy a lottery ticket if I see the jackpot is like, 100 million bucks or something silly, and there isn't a line to get one. Since I rarely play the lottery, I'll almost always forget about it within an hour. So unless I happen to find the ticket in my pants or whatever when doing laundry, i'll never check it.

Now, the place that sells the winning tickets usually make the news around here, and you could bet that if I saw the place I know i bought my ticket at was the place that sold the winner, I'd quickly remember buying one and would promptly tear my house apart looking for it.

But I'm sure I've tossed out a ticket or two for small prizes because I never remembered to check if I won or not.

LineNoise: scottydoesntknow: How farking stupid do you have to be to purchase a ticket and not even bother to check it, especially after they announce that someone won it?

Sometimes I'll buy a lottery ticket if I see the jackpot is like, 100 million bucks or something silly, and there isn't a line to get one. Since I rarely play the lottery, I'll almost always forget about it within an hour. So unless I happen to find the ticket in my pants or whatever when doing laundry, i'll never check it.

Now, the place that sells the winning tickets usually make the news around here, and you could bet that if I saw the place I know i bought my ticket at was the place that sold the winner, I'd quickly remember buying one and would promptly tear my house apart looking for it.

But I'm sure I've tossed out a ticket or two for small prizes because I never remembered to check if I won or not.

Hey man, me too. I buy only if it's more than 100 million (simply because I know after taxes I could still live my life extremely comfortably on that), but I'll be damned if I don't hear that someone in Houston won it and check that ticket.

I've thrown out raffle tickets and that sort of stuff, but $100+ million?!

Coriantumr: If history is to be believed, the wisest thing to do might be to let it just expire.

wise, wise words. where'd i put my Monkey's Paw?

My middle name is spelled out on my driver's license and Social Security card, and it is at least as easily a surname as a forename, so I would make like its a Hispanic thing and only use my forename and middle name on the lottery commission's paperwork. Set up a bank account or investment account that way, and the cheque will clear fine (even better if it can be done by direct deposit). That is, the world knows me as Hop S. Soda, and the lottery commission's press release and TV news would have Hop Scotch whom no one knows. I'd have a wig and facial hair, wear glasses and look up half-way between the camera and lights to maximize reflection.