$3.5 Million Lottery Ticket Unclaimed, Now Worthless

Wednesday, February 21, 2007 posted 11:05 AM EST

Connecticut lottery officials said no one has produced the winning ticket for a $3.5 million jackpot in the Feb. 14, 2006, drawing.

The winning ticket expired and is worthless, lottery officials said.

However, officials said if someone mailed it in and it was postmarked before the deadline, it would be honored.

Lottery officials have also rejected nearly 200 lost ticket claims.

Lottery spokeswoman Diane Patterson said the people who had made the claims didn't have such basic facts as where and when the winning ticket was purchased.

But there is one winner in the story of the jackpot that turned into a pumpkin.

The Coventry Getty Mart in Coventry, which sold the winning ticket, is getting a $10,000

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