Lottery ticket expired?

[flipnflap]

after how long do Lotto or Euromillions, or indeed any UK Lottery tickets, expire? I ask because I just found one from 2008 and I want to know, if I have it checkjed and it's a winner, can I claim the reward?

[B00]

nope, fraid not.

[B00]

http://www.lottery.co.uk/info/ticket-valid.asp

[Baldric]

180 days

[Old_Geezer]

I stopped doing the lottery when they stole my winnings. It was only a £9 win but I could not find the ticket. Found it 9 months later being used as a bookmark, but they refused to pay the amount I had clearly won. Some 'get out of our responsibility. clause that they put in, in the first place apparently. (A similar system to the gift voucher con where they don't provide the goods/service they have taken money for after a set time but don't refund the money taken either. Shows the law is for the conman not the common folk.) Well their loss, there have been months and months of no £1 collected since then, so I suspect I'm quids in.

[cathfromsaron]

play online and you need not even claim!

[mike11111]

I suppose the logic behind it is that after 6 months any unclaimed prizes are allocated to "good causes", so they no longer have that prize money to pay out. Rather similar to handing in lost property at a police station. After a certain time unclaimed it is returned to the finder and the original owner has no claim on it.

[annie49]

Don't even know if you could check it after that length of time?

[HowardKennitby]

lottery website only seems to go back 6 months. I expect a machine might be able to check further back.

[Old_Geezer]

The lottery website had lists going back much further when I had cause to look & double check. Not that it does you any good to prove you're right. Winning amounts are accounted for, and ought not be given to good causes within at least the potential lifetime of the winner. After all it belongs to the winner not the company.

[robert551069]

I gave up buying lottery tickets when I learned that the odds of winning the jackpot were 13 million to one. I had previously spent a couple of hundred pounds and had only won £13

[starone]

I used to spend £6 a week on the lottery and had contributed since the beginning (starting from £1 and gradually building up to £6). When the credit crunch came and I looked around for something to economise on I picked this. Looking back and realising I had only won a couple of tenners and spent a few thousand I realise how foolish it is to gamble. If I had saved the money instead I would have been quids in. Never again!

[murraymints]

a very near neighbour of my mum...50 yards away... won £8million.....couple of years back and has caused them loads of strife since !!!!

[boxtops]

We play on-line, they email you if you win.