This Lotto Max winner just found out that he scored $1 million with a ticket from 2024.
He forgot to check his ticket when the draw happened last year and didn't realize it matched the Maxmillions numbers.
WCLC recently announced that Ming Zhu, a Calgary local, won $1 million from a Lotto Max draw in 2024.
He bought the winning ticket from a Shoppers Drug Mart store on 4 Street NW in Calgary.
Zhu scored one of the Maxmillions with the draw on Friday, August 9, 2024.
The Lotto Max winning numbers for that Maxmillions prize were 8, 22, 26, 32, 38, 41, and 44.
"I have bought tickets for many years thinking, 'I bought, I have a chance,'" Zhu said.
But he had forgotten to check the ticket to see if he was a winner when the draw happened.
Now that he has, he's stunned.
Ming Zhu.Lotto Spot
“I checked [the ticket] again and again," he said. "Then I left the store and told the news to my wife."
Zhu revealed that his wife didn't believe he had won $1 million.
"So I used my laptop to show her on the website," he said.
Once he convinced his wife that he had the winning ticket for a Maxmillions prize worth $1 million, they were ecstatic and started to decide how they would spend it together.
"We're going to buy a new home," Zhu said.
Lotto Max tickets and other draw-based lottery tickets in Canada expire one year from the draw date printed on the ticket, WCLC noted.
A prize can't be claimed on an expired ticket because it's no longer valid once that date has passed.
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