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$9.7M lottery prize unclaimed — what's in your wallet?

Thirty days after a $9.7 million lottery ticket was sold at a convenience store in Shoreline, the money has yet to be claimed by the lucky winner.

Thirty days after a $9.7 million lottery ticket was sold at a convenience store in Shoreline, the money has yet to be claimed by the lucky winner.

The winning numbers are 01-08-21-30-36-39, and the ticket was sold July 26 at the 7-Eleven at 1232 N. 185th St.

State lottery officials are urging the winner to come forward.

"Because this is such a large jackpot, very few people would sit on it if they had the ticket," said Jacque Coe, lottery spokeswoman. "We have to assume that whoever has it, doesn't know."

Winners have 180 days after the drawing to claim the prize. If no one does, the money gets set aside into the unclaimed prize fund, which pays for promotional giveaways, such as a "trip of a lifetime" or weekend vacations, Coe said.

If someone does find the ticket, she said, he or she should sign the back of it, keep it in a cool, safe, dry place and call the lottery office at 360-664-4720 to make an appointment to claim it.

The last — and only — time a prize of this magnitude went unclaimed was in April 1993, when a $6 million ticket was sold and no one stepped forward, Coe said.

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