The ticket that was not a winner: no town-sold dispute or expiry found

L82-5 · Disputed, unclaimed and expired-prize cases, town-sold tickets

Tested negative: no disputed, unclaimed or expired-prize Hoosier Lottery ticket sold in New Carlisle or Olive Township was found in the Lottery’s public unclaimed/expiring-prize record as reported, or in the press file searched for this section. The instruments were: (1) the Hoosier Lottery’s own FAQ and prize apparatus — which, notably, publishes remaining unclaimed prizes per scratch-off game (“Prizes and Odds”) but directs “where winning tickets were sold” inquiries to Customer Service (1-800-955-6886), i.e., there is no public town-searchable sold-ticket register to run; (2) the recurring press genre of expiring-ticket alerts, which names the selling store, town, game, drawing date and deadline for every ticket it covers; and (3) the disputed-ticket case file in Indiana press coverage. Read together, the expiring-ticket alerts name Terre Haute (Love’s Travel Stop; $50,000 Powerball, Christmas Eve 2025 drawing, expiring June 22, 2026), Southport (Payless Liquors; $50,000 Powerball, Jan. 3 drawing, expiring July 2, 2026), Greenwood (Superior Discount Beverage; $50,000 Powerball, May 6, 2024 drawing, expired Nov. 4, 2024) and Hobart (Luke 234; $458,872 CA$H 5 jackpot, Jan. 2, 2024 drawing, expiring July 1, 2024) — under Indiana’s rule that draw-game prizes must be claimed within 180 days of the drawing. None names a New Carlisle seller. The Indiana dispute canon likewise seats elsewhere: the $100,000 Hold ’Em Poker scratch-off found in a Shelbyville café trash can (Administrative Law Judge Gregg Henry upheld the Lottery’s denial of the discarders’ claim in July 2005; the finder, Karie Jeremiah, had cashed it), and Paul Marshall’s $500,000 Powerball prize, honored by the Lottery Commission in December 2023 after a clerk tore up his validated ticket, proved on store video. Neither ticket was sold in this town.

A standing trap is dispelled in print: discovery for “New Carlisle lottery winner” returns a dense Ohio file — a $20,000 Cash Blowout prize “sold in New Carlisle,” a “New Carlisle Resident wins $50,000,” a $2 million Anniversary-game top prize won by “a regular lottery player from New Carlisle, Ohio” (June 2010), and a March 23, 2013 ticket sold at the Speedway / 7-Eleven at 324 East Main Street in New Carlisle. Every one of those is New Carlisle, OHIO, under the Ohio Lottery. None is evidence about Indiana, and none is used as such here.

The negative is bounded by the Lottery’s own information design: because no public register of winning tickets by selling town exists (the FAQ routes the question to a phone call), a small unclaimed town prize that never drew a press alert would be invisible to this test. The settler is a Hoosier Lottery records response listing unclaimed/expired prizes by retailer town. On the published record, the row is empty — in a build whose winner roll is otherwise covered, the non-winner file for this town has no entries.

Sources:

1. Hoosier Lottery, Frequently Asked Questions (hoosierlottery.com) — remaining unclaimed prizes published per game; “where winning tickets were sold” routed to Customer Service, 1-800-955-6886.
2. Expiring-ticket press alerts (Casino.org / GambleRss, June 2026; LotteryUSA, 2024) — Terre Haute, Southport, Greenwood and Hobart tickets itemized, with the 180-day claim rule; no New Carlisle seller named.
3. Lottery Post, July 11, 2005 — Shelbyville $100,000 trash-can ticket dispute, ALJ Henry decision; boundary contrast.
4. Casino.org, Dec. 13, 2023 — Paul Marshall $500,000 torn-ticket prize honored; boundary contrast.
5. Ohio Lottery search-result file for “New Carlisle” (2023; June 2010) — DISPELLED: New Carlisle, Ohio; never used for Indiana facts.