The Blue Planet Aquarium is looking to help the National Lottery ‘fish out’ two missing Lotto winners in the Wirral and Cheshire.
With the deadlines to claim fast approaching, two prizes worth £1 million and £100,000 remain unclaimed from tickets bought in the area.
A ticket bought in Cheshire West & Chester claimed the first big prize, while the second is from a ticket purchased in the Wirral.
The National Lottery joined forces with the Ellesmere Port-based Aquarium, on one of its busiest weekends of the year to encourage the thousands of visitors to search everywhere for the missing tickets.
A giant fish-friendly replica lottery tickets and cheques were present in the main tank with the sharks and divers across the weekend to remind everyone who saw them to search for the missing tickets in even the most unlikely of places.
The £1,000,000 unclaimed prize from a ticket bought in Cheshire West & Chester was for the Lotto draw on July 23 this year.
The ticket-holder matched the winning Lotto Millionaire Raffle code BLUE 3290 4318 and only has until 19 January, 2017 to claim their prize.
In addition, a further £100,000 prize remains outstanding from a ticket bought in WirraI for the special Lotto Medal Draw, on August 27.
The one-off draw was held to thank National Lottery players for the support they have given Team GB through playing The National Lottery.
The ticket-holder matched the winning Lotto Millionaire Raffle code GREY 5695 6430 and the deadline to claim this prize is 23 February, 2017.
Every week Lotto Millionaire Raffle guarantees to create two millionaires – one on Wednesday and one on Saturday.
However, the special Lotto draw in August created an extra 67 winners of life-changing prizes in one night – 27 prizes of £1 million were up for grabs to match the number of gold medals won by Team Gb at the Rio Olympics.
A further 23 prizes of £100,000 to equal the Silver medal haul and 17 additional prizes of £50,000 to match those Bronze medals won in Brazil this summer.
For every Lotto line played, players automatically receive a Lotto Millionaire Raffle code printed on their ticket.
Andy Carter, Senior Winners’ Advisor at The National Lottery, said: “Thousands of people visit the Blue Planet Aquarium every weekend from all over Cheshire and the north west and the areas where we have these unclaimed prizes.
“These are two life-changing sums of money sitting and waiting to be collected by two lucky players who bought their tickets in Cheshire West & Chester and in Wirral.
“We’re encouraging all players to check their old Lotto tickets again or look anywhere a missing ticket could be hiding.
“Try checking in draws, pockets, wallets and in the bottom of handbags – someone out there could literally be carrying around a fortune and not even know it.
“We have the champagne and big cheques on standby – all we need is the lucky winners to come forward to claim their prizes.”
With all National Lottery draws, players have 180 days from the day of the draw to claim their prize if they have the winning ticket.
Anyone who has any queries or who believes they have the winning ticket for any of the draws within the 180-day deadline should call the National Lottery Line on 0844 338 7551 or email help@national-lottery.co.uk