Have you got the winning ticket? $200,000 Lotto prize still unclaimed after full month

Sandra Shum from the Lotto outlet at the Caversham Four Square is looking for the winner of an as yet unclaimed $200,000 Lotto win. Photo / Otago Daily Times

The owner of the Caversham Four Square store is pleading with customers to check their Lotto tickets as a $200,000 prize remains unclaimed a month after the numbers were drawn.

Store owner Sandra Shum said she called Lotto yesterday and was told the prize was the only one of five first division wins in the October 14, No 1690, draw still to be collected.

"We hope we find them, because they've only got a year to claim it."

In past weeks staff had been asking customers to check their tickets and the shop owners put a sign on the counter to alert customers to the unclaimed win, she said.

"People put their tickets under their bed perhaps, put it in their wallet, then they forget about it."

The shop had sold tickets since Lotto began in 1986 and had "heaps" of winners in that time, Shum said.

The largest prize staff could remember was $800,000.

Many prizes went unclaimed over the years, including entire houses, she said.

Winners often promised Shum cruises and dinners, but did not deliver, she said, although, "I did once get shouted some cream cakes".

If Shum won $200,000 the first thing she would do was take her family out to dinner.

"I'd also pay the mortgage off. Maybe have a holiday. I deserve one."