--- title: This Is the Stupidest Way Ever to Lose a Fortune description: Officials say the winner has just one more day to present the ticket if they want to collect their $63 million prize. authors: - name: Martha C. White role: Writer url: https://money.com/author/martha-c-white/ education: BA, English, Princeton University at_money_since: 2015 articles: 350 covers: - Personal Finance - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Economy and Politics - Education - Federal Reserve Rate Cuts - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology published: '2016-02-03T20:58:33.000Z' modified: '2016-02-03T20:58:33.000Z' section: Personal Finance tags: - gambling - Lottery - Lottery Jackpot - Lottery Winner - lottery winnings - Massive powerball - powerball jackpot - pubdesk word_count: 229 canonical: https://money.com/california-lottery-jackpot-unclaimed/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![160203_em_lostlottoticket](https://img.money.com/2016/02/160203_em_lostlottoticket.jpg) Talk about money slipping through your fingers: Officials in California are warning an unidentified lottery winner that he or she is going to lose the value of their winning ticket — a cool $63 million — if they don't claim their winnings by tomorrow. The golden ticket was bought at a 7-Eleven in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Chatworth back in August, and the 180 days winners have to collect ends at 5 p.m. Thursday. The *[Los Angeles Times](http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-deadline-63-million-lotto-ticket-20160202-story.html)* said the winning numbers on the SuperLotto Plus ticket are 46-1-33-30-16, with a Mega number of 24. The lump-sum value is a tick under $40 million, which means even by Hollywood standards, that ticket-holder would be a pretty comfortable multi-millionaire. Weirdly enough, this isn't the only gigantic lottery prize in the Golden State that's gone unclaimed. The winner of a $528 million chunk of last month's enormous $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot hasn't turned up yet to collect their winnings, either, although he or she still has nearly a year to claim their prize. According to [CBS Local](http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/02/03/deadline-approaches-for-winner-of-63m-superlotto-jackpot/), a Los Angeles man says he presented the winning ticket to lottery officials and was being denied the prize on a "technicality." (The agency said it was too damaged to be authenticated.) 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