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Find out what your ticket is actually worth.

Prizes won and never collected

$2.61 billion

Florida, Michigan and Texas, 2010 to 2024, from audited state financial reports. How we counted it.

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Any order is fine.

Or take a picture, we will handle the rest.

Bought a ticket? Save it and we check it after every drawing, then email you if it won anything.

Tri-State Megabucks · drawing tonight

Tri-State Megabucks jackpot · drawn tonight

$1,575,000

Estimated, and this is the annuity. The cash option is lower, and a jackpot is divided if more than one ticket matches. What a jackpot actually pays.

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Days

13

Hrs

51

Min

27

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The last Tri-State Megabucks drawing

  1. 9
  2. 18
  3. 20
  4. 28
  5. 33
  6. 3

Wednesday 16 September.

Every lottery we check

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Save a ticket once. We watch it after every drawing.

A ticket in a coat pocket is not a ticket you forgot about. We email you if one of yours wins, and nothing else, ever.

What we store

  • The numbers on the tickets you save, and your email address
  • Nothing else. No name, no address, no card
  • Delete a ticket and the numbers go with it
  • The checker above stores nothing at all, signed in or not

Free for ten tickets. No password to set.

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Why bother

Most unclaimed prizes are small ones.

Nobody forgets to check after a billion dollar roll. The tickets that expire are the four dollar ones, bought on a Tuesday and left in a coat pocket.

01

Order never matters

A ticket played 25-10-05-20-15 against a drawing of 05-10-15-20-25 is a five number match. People compare position by position, see two that line up, and bin a winner.

02

The bonus ball is its own machine

A 7 among your main numbers does not match a 7 drawn as the bonus ball. It also means the bonus ball alone can be a winning ticket, which a lot of people never check for.

03

Your state changes the answer

A Pennsylvania retailer can hand you $2,500 in cash. A Vermont one can hand you $499. Same ticket, same prize. The rules by state.

Every drawing

Search 2181 drawings.

Every number we hold, from every game, with the winner counts the lotteries published beside them.

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Lottery news

Published by the state lotteries themselves. We link to them and keep nothing but the headline.

Questions

Is it free?
Checking your numbers is free, unlimited, and needs no account at all. An account is free too, and it is what lets us watch a ticket and email you if it wins. MilliCheck+ is a paid plan for people who save a lot of tickets; nobody needs it to get an answer.
Do you store the numbers I enter?
Not when you are checking. They are compared in memory and discarded when the page loads, and nothing goes to our database or our logs. A ticket you deliberately save is stored, because storing it is the whole point of saving it.
Will you tell me if I win?
If you saved the ticket, yes. We check it after every drawing it is entered in and email you if it wins anything at all. The email is a convenience; your wallet on this site is the record, because mail bounces and claim windows close.
Can I take a picture of my ticket instead of typing it?
Yes, with a free account, which includes five reads. You always see the numbers we read and correct them before anything is saved. Typing needs no account and gets exactly the same answer.
Where do the results come from?
Official sources: the lottery operators and state open data portals. Your physical ticket is still the only thing you can claim with.
How long do I have to claim a prize?
Between 90 days and a year, and it is set by the state where you bought the ticket rather than by the game. We publish the exact deadline for each state we cover, with the page we read it off and the date somebody checked it.
What time do ticket sales stop before a drawing?
It is per state and per game, and the two are rarely the same. Michigan closes Powerball at 9:58pm and Mega Millions at 10:45pm for two drawings a minute apart. Pick your state on the home page and we will tell you, or say plainly that we have not checked it yet.