Half-Million-Dollar Lottery Ticket Sold In Bensalem (ICYMI)

BENSALEM, PA — Someone in the Bensalem area got a half-million dollars richer over the weekend.

A top-prize winning ticket worth $517,877 for the Pennsylvania Lottery's Extreme Green game was sold Saturday at a Wawa in the Andalusia neighborhood. The Wawa is located at 1549 Bristol Pike.

The Wawa will receive a $5,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.

The PA Lottery had not announced that a winner has come forward to claim the prize as of Tuesday morning.

Extreme Green is a $20 Fast Play game that offers 20 progressive top prizes starting at $200,000. Fast Play games pring from a lottery sales terminal or touch-screen vending terminal and are like scratch-off games, but without the need to scratch off a ticket.

To see if they've won a prize, players can review the ticket or scan it at a lottery retailer or with the ticket-checker feature on the lottery's mobile app.

According to lottery officials, the holder of a top-prize winning Fast Play ticket should immediately sign the back of the ticket, call the lottery at 717-702-8146 and file a claim at the nearest lottery office.Prizes must be claimed and tickets validated before winners can be identified. Fast Play prizes must be claimed within one year of the ticket's purchase date.