WEBVTT AND THAT HAS ALOT OF PEOPLE EAGER TO FINDTHEM.GRANITE STATERS HOPING TO MAKESOME BIG MONEY OFF OF THIS,SCRATCH TICKETS.>> 21, 27, 6 AND 40.REPORTER: THE $5 GAME WAS FIRSTLAUNCHED LAST MAY.SO FAR 95% OF TICKETS HAVE BEENSOLD, BUT THE NEW HAMPSHIRELOTTERY SAYS THERE ARE STILLSOME VERY LARGE PRIZES OUTTHERE.>> WITH THE 95% SOLD, USUALLYTHERE'S ONE TOP PRIZE STILLREMAINING.WE STILL HAVE THREE TOP PRIZESREMAINING, WHICH IS HIGHLYUNUSUAL.REPORTER: THERE ARE STILL THREEOUTSTANDING $100,000 WINNINGTICKETS AND 19 WINNING TICKETSWORTH $1,000, WAITING TO BECLAIMED.AS FOR WHERE THOSE MAY BE?>> WE KNOW THERE ARE ABOUT35,000 TICKETS STILL REMAININGOUT AT RETAILERS.WHERE PEOPLE HAVE THEOPPORTUNITY TO STILL BUY THEM,SO THOSE THREE TOP PRIZES COULDBE THERE.THEY ALSO COULD HAVE BEENRETURNED TO THE WAREHOUSE ANDARE NOW IN PROCESS FORDESTRUCTION.SO WE JUST DON'T KNOW.REPORTER: BECAUSE THERE ARE SOFEW TICKETS LEFT, ONLY CERTAINSTORES HAVE THEM IN STOCK.ONE OF THEM BEING TRIPLE 7EXPRESS IN MANCHESTER.THE OWNER SOLD THE FIRST$100,000 BIG GAME TICKET BACK INJUNE.JOINING A LONG LIST OF WINNINGTICKETS SOLD HERE.>> EVERYBODY SAYING LUCKY STORE.I BELIEVE IN LUCKY PERSON.YOU HAVE TO BE RIGHT TIME, RIGHTPLACE.REPORTER: MATT MURPHY WASDREAMING OF A TROPICAL VACATIONAS HE SCRATCHED AWAY.>> PROBABLY WOULD HAVE WENT TOCOSTA RICA.REPORTER: UNFORTUNATELY HE CAMEUP EMPTY, AS DID ANN CRUZ WHO ISVISITING FROM FLORIDA.>> IT'S OKAY.IT WAS FUN WHILE IT LASTED.REPORTER: THERE ARE STILL SOMEPEOPLE HERE TRYING TO BUYSCRATCH TICKETS.WE HAVE SOME BAD NEWS, THE STOREOWNER HERE TELLS ME THAT SINCEWE STARTED THIS REPORT HE'S NOWSOLD OUT OF THE BIG MONEYTICKET.HOWEVER, HE SAYS STILL SO FAR NOONE HAS COME FORWARD TO CLAIMTHESE VERY BIG PRIZES. SO THAT
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Big prizes still available as Big Money tickets close to selling out
Three $100,000 prizes may still be available
A New Hampshire scratch-ticket game that's almost sold out still may have some big prizes available, lottery officials said Friday.The New Hampshire Lottery said that only about 5 percent of the $5 Big Money tickets are left, but there are still three $100,000 tickets that haven't been claimed. "With 95 percent sold, usually there's one top prize still remaining," said Kelley Jaye-Cleland of the New Hampshire Lottery. "We still have three top prizes remaining, which is highly unusual." There are also 19 winning tickets worth $1,000 waiting to be claimed. "We know that there are about 35,000 tickets still remaining at retailers where people may have the opportunity to still buy them, so those three top prizes could be there," Jaye-Cleland said. "They also still could have been returned to the warehouse and now are in the process of destruction, so we just don't know." Because there are so few tickets left, not all stores still have them in stock. One that did earlier Friday was 777 Express in Manchester. Owner Jay Farhat sold the first $100,000 Big Money ticket in June, joining a long list of winning tickets sold there. "Everybody says it's a lucky store," Farhat said. "I believe in a lucky person. You have to be in the right time, right place." Shopper Matt Murphy said he was dreaming of a tropical vacation as he scratched his ticket. Unfortunately for him, he came up empty. "I probably would've went to Costa Rica," he said. "Where else are you going to go?"As News 9 was reporting this story Friday evening, 777 Express sold out of the Big Money tickets.
MANCHESTER, N.H. —
A New Hampshire scratch-ticket game that's almost sold out still may have some big prizes available, lottery officials said Friday.
The New Hampshire Lottery said that only about 5 percent of the $5 Big Money tickets are left, but there are still three $100,000 tickets that haven't been claimed.
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"With 95 percent sold, usually there's one top prize still remaining," said Kelley Jaye-Cleland of the New Hampshire Lottery. "We still have three top prizes remaining, which is highly unusual."
There are also 19 winning tickets worth $1,000 waiting to be claimed.
"We know that there are about 35,000 tickets still remaining at retailers where people may have the opportunity to still buy them, so those three top prizes could be there," Jaye-Cleland said. "They also still could have been returned to the warehouse and now are in the process of destruction, so we just don't know."
Because there are so few tickets left, not all stores still have them in stock. One that did earlier Friday was 777 Express in Manchester. Owner Jay Farhat sold the first $100,000 Big Money ticket in June, joining a long list of winning tickets sold there.
"Everybody says it's a lucky store," Farhat said. "I believe in a lucky person. You have to be in the right time, right place."
Shopper Matt Murphy said he was dreaming of a tropical vacation as he scratched his ticket. Unfortunately for him, he came up empty.
"I probably would've went to Costa Rica," he said. "Where else are you going to go?"
As News 9 was reporting this story Friday evening, 777 Express sold out of the Big Money tickets.
