South Dakota Lottery seeking ticketholder of unclaimed $100K prize won in Canistota in December

CANISTOTA, S.D. — South Dakota Lottery is trying to find a fortunate winner who by no means claimed a $100,000 prize.

In response to their web site, a $100,000 successful South Dakota Powerball ticket was bought on the Whole Cease Meals Retailer in Canistota on Dec. 11, 2021 — however regardless of a roughly 1 in 900,000 probability of successful, the fortunate particular person has but to say the prize.

Winners have 180 days from the drawing to say their prize, that means Canistota’s winner has till June 9 to redeem the ticket.

South Dakota Lottery is instructing gamers who bought a ticket on the Canistota enterprise to double verify the numbers, which have been 3-25-44-53-64 with a PowerBall of 10.

If the numbers match, the winner should fill out a declare kind, out there at lottery retailers and on-line, and ship the finished kind plus the successful ticket to the Lottery’s head workplace at 711 E. Wells Ave. in Pierre. Prize cash needs to be returned inside 7-10 days of receipt of a successful ticket.

Those that favor to redeem in-person could journey to one among three validation facilities in Pierre, Fast Metropolis or Sioux Falls.

Solely prizes of $100 or much less could also be paid out at lottery retailers. All different prizes of $101 or extra should be processed via a state validation heart.

South Dakota Lottery mentioned the income earned via non-winning ticket gross sales — together with monies returned from unclaimed prizes — is invested proper again into South Dakotans.

On common, the state’s lottery says it returns $345,000 again to the state daily, directed towards enhancements to colleges, roads, pure sources and extra. In 2021, lottery earnings accounted for $161 million of the state’s funds.

Based via the South Dakota Legislature in 1987, the lottery has funneled $1.16 billion again to the state’s Basic Fund to help public faculties; $115.97 million to the Capital Building Fund, which communities use to pay for rural water programs, group consuming water and wastewater enchancment initiatives; and offered $4.67 million to the Division of Social Companies for downside playing therapy companies.

Extra info concerning South Dakota Lottery’s funding and expenditures

can be found on their web site.