There’s less than a week left for the holder of a $100,000 Fantasy 5 ticket sold in Novi to claim the big prize or it will go to the state School Aid Fund.
The winning ticket for the May 8, 2013 Fantasy 5 drawing was sold at the 7-Eleven located at 24111 Meadowbrook in Novi. The winning numbers were: 04-22-27-36-37.
Fantasy 5 tickets are valid for one year from the drawing date. The $100,000 prize must be claimed before the ticket expires at 4:45 p.m. on Thursday.
The ticket holder should contact the Lottery’s Public Relations Division at (517) 373-1237 for an appointment to claim the prize at the Lottery headquarters in Lansing.
If the prize isn’t claimed before the ticket expires, it will go to the state School Aid Fund.
Three major Michigan Lottery prizes have gone unclaimed since March 10, adding nearly $639,000 to the School Aid Fund. Two of the winning tickets were sold at Southfield retailers. The third was sold in Flint. The unclaimed prizes were:
- $250,000 Mega Millions prize. The winning ticket expired on April 14. It was bought in Southfield, at the 8 Mile Foodland, 18880 8 Mile Road.
The Lottery contributed $734.3 million to the School Aid Fund in the 2013 fiscal year. That works out to about $483 for each of the 1.52 million pupils in the state’s kindergarten-through-12th grade system.
