The ticket that was not a winner: unclaimed, expired, disputed

ROW 82-5 · TESTED NEGATIVE FOR THIS GROUND · THE STATE PATTERN AT POINTER SIZE

No Granger ticket stands in the not-a-winner record: this run searched the Hoosier Lottery's unclaimed-prize publicity and the press record built on it — the near-expiry alerts the Lottery issues when a large prize is about to lapse — for any ticket sold in Granger or at a retailer serving the CDP, and found none. The alerts the record does contain name other ground each time: $50,000 Powerball tickets sold in Terre Haute and Southport lapsing in June and July 2026; a $50,000 ticket at Greenwood expiring November 4, 2024; earlier alerts at Fort Wayne and DeMotte; and the state's best-told near-miss, a $1 million Powerball ticket sold in Kendallville, found between a car's seats and claimed on December 26, 2024, five hours before expiry. The absence is the finding for this ground, and it prints with the rule that produces such cases: under Indiana Code § 4-30-11-7 a prize must be claimed within 180 days of the drawing (draw games) or the game's end (scratch-offs), and under § 4-30-11-9 unclaimed prize money returns to the prize pool or to special promotions — an expired Granger ticket, if one ever lapses, will never be publicly named as Granger's, because the Lottery names unclaimed prizes by retailer only while a claim is still possible.

The disputed side was tested the same way and returns the same local negative inside a live state case: in 2026 the Lottery halted sales of its $5 Space Invaders Cash Invasion scratch-off after a printing error made some tickets appear to show prizes different from the Lottery's validation record — players who believed they had won $100,000 were told the validation record paid $20, and at least one player who believed he had won $2,500 was told he had won nothing; the Lottery opened a protest-form process. No party to that dispute is placed in Granger in the record reached; the case is printed at pointer size as the state's disputed-prize pattern in the build month, not as a local event. Disposition: TESTED NEGATIVE — no disputed, unclaimed or expired-prize case seated in the CDP appears in the Lottery's record or the press record searched, November 2026.

Sources:

1. Indiana Code § 4-30-11-7 and § 4-30-11-9 — the 180-day claim window; unclaimed money to the prize pool.
2. Hoosier Lottery near-expiry publicity as reported (Casino.org, June 2026 — Terre Haute and Southport; LotteryUSA, 2024 — Greenwood, Fort Wayne, DeMotte; Casino.org and Lottery Post, December 2024 — the Kendallville claim five hours before expiry).
3. The Space Invaders Cash Invasion dispute: the Hoosier Lottery's statement (printing error; sales halted; protest form) as carried by The U.S. Sun and People, 2026 — state pattern, no Granger party in the record.
4. Search record of this run: unclaimed/expired sweeps naming Granger and its retailers — no case returned.