Lottery Ticket Worth $100,000 About to Expire

Are you the lucky lottery ticket holder? The TAG number on a Lotto Super 7 ticket sold in the area of Saint John, N.B., for the July 29, 2005, draw is worth $100,000. Lottery winners have one year from the draw date to claim a prize, the ticket will expire this Saturday, July 29, 2006.

The winning six-digit TAG number for the July 29, 2005, draw is 209656.

The $100,000 top prize is awarded when a player matches all six digits. Players can also win secondary prizes by matching numbers down to the last digit. TAG is an add-on game that can be played with your Lotto 6/49, Atlantic 49, Lotto Super 7, Pik 4, KENO or Atlantic PAYDAY ticket.

Winning tickets worth more than $10,000, can be claimed at any ALC office across Atlantic Canada. For more information on how to claim a prize, please contact our toll-free number at 1-800-561-3942.

Unclaimed prizes (prizes not claimed one year from the draw date) go to the unclaimed prize fund until such time they are returned to players in the form of prizes.

In the past 12 months, there have been 23 New Brunswick TAG top prize winners. Almost $92 million was awarded in prizes on draw and instant tickets sold in New Brunswick last year. A total of $336 million was awarded in player prizes and $143 million was paid out in retailer commissions across the four Atlantic provinces.

Atlantic Lottery turns 30 this year. All in all, it's been a "Win-Win" for Atlantic Canada. It's been a win for players for literally 4.5 billion reasons: that's the amount ALC has awarded in prizes to winners over the past three decades. It's also been a win for Atlantic Canada because, over the past 30 years, every penny of ALC's profit - $4.7 billion since 1976 - has been returned to the region through Atlantic Canada's four provincial governments.

For further information: Robert Bourgeois, Public Affairs Specialist, Atlantic Lottery Corporation, (506) 867-5825