Lottery ticket worth millions set to expire in UK

A lottery ticket worth £10.6m is set to expire in the United Kingdom. The ticket won in the October 4, 2025, Lotto draw, and has not been claimed since, with the winner matching all six main numbers - 6, 8, 12, 33, 49, and 59.

With days left on the clock for the reward to be secured, the National Lottery suspects that the person may not be aware that they had won, meaning that the money would most likely be forfeited. However, there is still hope. The person has until April 2, 2026, to claim their prize as per the 180-day deadline that the lottery sets in such cases. The lottery is keen to get to the winner as well, reminding the public that the winner was in the Bexley area - or at least had bought their ticket there - and urged people to start checking their drawers, pockets, sofas, and more. If it were a lucky dip ticket, people wouldn't necessarily know their numbers. Someone in the Bexley area is sitting on a £10.6m prize, and they don't know it, the lottery said. Any unclaimed lottery prizes are going to be distributed to the lottery’s Good Causes fund. Despite the urgency, unclaimed prizes are not unheard of in the United Kingdom. Over the years, several high-value tickets have gone uncollected, most likely due to players never realizing they had the winning ticket in the first place. Buying lottery tickets becomes a habit, and checking them falls off the list of daily priorities. A woman and her husband in Michigan recently won a nearly $4m jackpot, but supposedly remembered to check their ticket after they received it from friends and family who were familiar with their lottery habit that had been going on for years.