A North East Euromillions player sitting on a fortune for six months has lost out on their prize after failing to come forward to claim it.
The £1m jackpot was won in the Euromillions draw on November 3 last year as one of ten ‘Millionaire Maker’ prizes.
The ticket-holder, who bought the lucky ticket in Northumberland failed to come forward by midnight last night to claim the seven-figure winnings.
The money will now instead go to Lotto-funded projects across the UK.
The National Lottery previously urged players to double-check their tickets to find the winner.
Andy Carter from Lotto said: “Unfortunately, I can confirm that the ticket-holder did not come forward within the deadline to claim their prize and has sadly missed out on this substantial amount of money.
“However, this prize is the only one of the ten from the special EuroMillions draw that has expired, and this money will now add to the £30M raised each week for National Lottery-funded projects.
“One of the lucky ten winning ticket-holders who has already claimed their £1,000,000 prize from this special EuroMillions draw is Ceri Ann Roscoe-Roberts and her husband, Paul, from Bangor in North Wales. Ceri woke up on the Friday morning of the draw with the strongest and strangest feeling that she had to buy a National Lottery ticket. Twenty-four hours later, she was celebrating becoming a millionaire.”
The ticket had winning code TDWJ 92983.
When no valid claim has been made on the prize by around two weeks after the draw, Lotto operator Camelot will reveal the general area in which the ticket was bought to encourage tickets to be checked but to allow the winner to remain anonymous if they wish.
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They do not publish details of which store the ticket was bought at to keep the winner anonymous.
Once a ticket holder has called Camelot and a claim has been validated and paid, the ticket holder will then decide whether or not to go public.
With all National Lottery draws players have 180 days from the day of the draw to claim their prize if they have the winning ticket.
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