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Check your lottery tickets!Loto-Québec is looking for four millionaires!
Check your lottery tickets!Loto-Québec is looking for four millionaires!
Montréal, February 3, 2022 — Do you have lottery tickets that you still haven’t checked? You may be one of the winners Loto-Québec is looking for! There are three millionaires and one multi-millionaire out there who have yet to claim their prize.
The lucky tickets include a $2,000,000 Québec 49 prize and three $1,000,000 prizes won at Lotto Max, Lotto 6/49 and Extra. The winning Québec 49 ticket was purchased in Quebec City, while the other three were bought in Gatineau, the RCM of Brome-Missisquoi and the RCM of Vaudreuil-Soulanges.
A reminder that customers can check their tickets easily via lotoquebec.com and the Loto-Québec Lotteries app.
Here are the details of the unclaimed prizes:
| $1,000,000 – Lotto Max Ticket purchase location: Gatineau Administrative region: Outaouais Draw date: June 22, 2021 Prize category: Maxmillions Claim deadline: June 22, 2022 |
| $2,000,000 – Québec 49 Ticket purchase location: Quebec City Administrative region: Capitale-Nationale Draw date: August 14, 2021 Prize category: grand prize Winning selection: 10 16 19 35 39 47 Claim deadline: August 14, 2022 |
| $1,000,000 – Extra Ticket purchase location: RCM of Brome-Missisquoi Administrative region: Estrie Draw date: November 5, 2021 Prize category: grand prize Winning number: 1098974 Claim deadline: November 5, 2022 |
| $1,000,000 – Lotto 6/49 Ticket purchase location: RCM of Vaudreuil-Soulanges Administrative region: Montérégie Draw date: November 24, 2021 Prize category: guaranteed prize Winning selection: 74608833-01 Claim deadline: November 24, 2022 |
Unclaimed prizes: More information
- Winners have 12 months following the draw to claim their prize.
- Loto-Québec informs lottery ticket buyers when a prize over $100,000 still hasn’t been claimed after several weeks.
- Unclaimed prizes of $100,000 or more are also listed in the Lotteries section of lotoquebec.com.
- Unclaimed prizes are redistributed to players in the form of bonus prizes and special draws.
COVID-19: How to claim a prize
As part of the collective effort to stop the spread of COVID-19 and to protect the health and safety of its customers and employees, Loto-Québec’s prize claim offices in Montréal and Quebec City are open by appointment only. Ticket holders who’ve won a prize of $25,000 or more should contact the customer service team. Under the current circumstances, the safest and most efficient way to claim a prize is still by mail. For more information on prize payment terms and conditions, please visit lotoquebec.com.
About Loto-Québec
Loto-Québec’s mission is to responsibly and efficiently manage games of chance in a controlled and measured fashion in the interest of all Quebecers. Entertainment is at the heart of its activities. In 2021, Loto-Québec paid out 145 prizes of $1 million or more. The Gagnant à vie and Grande Vie lotteries have provided 22 lucky winners with a lifetime annuity. Major prize winners are listed on the Winners page of the Lotteries website.
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Renaud Dugas
Spokesperson and Head of Press Relations
Loto-Québec
514-499-5208
renaud.dugas@loto-quebec.com