$500K Powerball ticket bought at Mason City convenience store expires

MASON CITY — The deadline passed Thursday afternoon for someone to claim a $500,000 Powerball prize from a ticket purchased at a Mason City convenience store.

The $500,000-winning ticket was purchased at the Kwik Star at 1502 South Federal in Mason City. The prize was won not in a regular Powerball drawing but in the Powerball Double Play drawing on March 16th. It had to be claimed at Iowa Lottery headquarters in Clive by 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon, which did not happen.

Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer says since nobody claimed the prize, the money goes back into their prize pool.  “If a prize expires without being claimed, the money goes into the lottery’s prize pools for future games and promotions, so it will go to pay prizes, just not those prizes that have expired.”

The winning ticket was part of the Double Play option that was added to the Powerball game in Iowa back in November, which is a second drawing that takes place after the first drawing.