Mason City, IA- The deadline passed Thursday afternoon as no one claimed a half-million dollar Powerball prize from a ticket sold at a northern Iowa Convenience Store.
Radio Iowa reports that the $500,000 ticket was purchased at a Kwik Star in Mason City six months ago, and needed to be claimed at the Iowa Lottery headquarters by 4 PM Thursday.
Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer explains what will happen to the money.
“If a prize expires without being claimed, the money goes into the lottery’s prize pools for future games and promotions,” Neubauer says, “so it will go to pay prizes, just not those prizes that have expired.”
The prize was not in a regular Powerball drawing, but in the Powerball Double Play drawing on March 16th.
The winning ticket was part of the Double Play option that was added to the Powerball game in Iowa back in November, which is a second drawing that takes place after the first drawing.
