Where Are the Missing Lottery Tickets Worth £12.6 Million?

by Roy Brindley, 4 November 2025

Birmingham and London are ground zero for unclaimed lottery tickets with £12.6 million in prizes yet to be claimed.

Where are the three missing, but still valid, £1 million-plus UK lottery tickets? © Getty Images

Key Facts:

• A £1 million Lotto prize will be forfeited unless it is claimed in the coming weeks.
• Two unclaimed £1 million winning lottery tickets have been purchased in Birmingham.
• After a month, a £10,633,323 London-bought winning Lotto ticket has yet to surface.

The countdown clock is ticking down on an unclaimed £1 million Lotto prize. The winning ticket from the May 24, 2025, Lotto – when numbers 9, 12, 13, 26, 38, 40 and Bonus Ball 4 emerged from the drum – is set to become void on November 20.

National Lottery players have 180 days to claim prizes on their winning tickets. Thereafter, unclaimed prize money is donated to the Good Causes fund, which supports National Lottery projects across the UK.

Two weeks after the draw, to help track down big winners, Allwyn, the prospering operator of the National Lottery, releases the general location where a substantial unclaimed winning ticket was purchased.

A Second £1 million Missing Ticket in Birmingham

For over five months, it has been known that this ‘Match 5 Plus Bonus’ winning ticket was purchased in Birmingham. Remarkably, a second £1 million lottery prize-winning ticket, also purchased in Birmingham, was played on the EuroMillions Lottery game in mid-August and remains unclaimed.

Its owner could have easily discarded the ticket after checking their Lotto numbers, as the £1 million prize is not for correctly predicting drawn numbers. Instead, the winning ticket featured that week’s winning Millionaire Maker code: VLPL28287.

Where Is London’s £10 Million Ticket?

The UK’s biggest unclaimed lottery ticket is an eye-watering £10,633,323. Its owner has failed to come forward for over a month. Purchased ahead of the October 4 Lotto draw, it features the numbers 6, 8, 12, 33, 49, 59.

Allwyn has declared the jackpot ticket was purchased in Bexley, in southeast London. In an effort to award the prize, Andy Carter, the company’s Senior Winners’ Advisor, has been quoted in local media as saying: “This is a massive win for one lucky Londoner, so we urge Lotto players to check their tickets to see if they are our would-be multi-millionaire.”

“Were you in and around Bexley in the week leading up to the October 4 draw? Maybe it isn’t even a local winner – did you visit the area for the day and play Lotto – did you return home and stash it somewhere safe? Think back to where, as I want nothing more than to unite the winner with their prize money,” said Allwyn’s representative.

The Lost, Found and Never Found Multi Million Tickets

In 2018, Allwyn’s ‘go public’ tactics did pay off when the partner and niece of a 51-year-old Lincolnshire builder urged him to check a stash of lottery tickets left in his work van. The result was a £76 million EuroMillions windfall claimed six weeks after the draw.

The largest unclaimed prize in UK lottery history was a jaw-dropping £63,837,543.60. To this day, all that is known about the winning ticket – for the June 8, 2012, EuroMillions lottery – is that it was purchased in the Stevenage and Hitchin area.