LOL@the term "scratchy".

Lottery Ticket Cashed from 1992

January 22, 2006 12:00 a.m. EST

Denise Royal - All Headline News Staff Writer

Sydney, Australia (AHN) – An Australian woman has collected nearly $75,000 after cashing in a lottery ticket more than a decade after it was bought.

The woman, who asked not to be identified, collected her winnings this week after discovering the ticket lodged in a greeting card she found in her home, a spokesman for New South Wales state Gaming Minister Grant McBride said on condition of anonymity he said was departmental policy.The lottery ticket — known in Australia as a scratchy because gamblers have to scratch the ticket to see if they have won a prize — was bought in 1992.The winner was doubly lucky as lottery officials are in the process of reining in the length of time people have to claim their winnings.

The largest unclaimed lottery prize in New South Wales is a $2,468,910 million dollar ticket that has been gathering dust since 1997.