MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – The chance of winning a $2,500 diamond at a hockey game last week was 1,000-to-one. And now the jeweler who offered the prize is faced with the chance that the winner unknowingly threw it away.

Last Friday, for Ladies’ Night at the Manchester Monarchs’ hockey game, jeweler David Bellman gave an envelope that contained a plastic bag to the first 1,000 women who arrived. One of the bags contained a half-carat diamond. The others held cubic zirconia, diamond look-a-likes.

The women were told to check their stone at special tables during the game. The real diamond didn’t show up.

“We’d like to know it’s not just sitting in somebody’s purse,” Bellman said.

And he prefers not to imagine that the winner just tossed the bag in the trash.