No winner in Hagersville Lions Club ‘Catch the Ace’ game after jackpot grows to $1.49M
Global News
Just under 111,000 tickets were sold prior to the Thursday night draw equating to about $738,000 in weekly revenues, a new record for the local game.
There’s still no grand prize winner following the week 44 Catch the Ace draw at the Hagersville, Ont. Lions Club.
The not-for-profit fundraiser’s top prize ballooned to just over $1.49 million, a new record for the game as another week passes without seeing the ace of spades.
Just under 111,000 tickets were sold prior to the Thursday night draw, equating to about $738,000, also a new record.
The weekly winner picked up just under $148,000.
The latest version of the fundraiser, under OLG licence, started out with a deck of cards put into envelopes, rolled in a drum, and then numbered one to 252.
Each week, participants in the progressive raffle buy tickets for a draw promising at least one automatic winner, collecting 20 per cent of sales.
That victor then gets a shot at picking a numbered envelope that could equate to a progressive jackpot that’s been built up each week with 30 per cent of ticket sales.
If the envelope contains the ace of spades, they win the jackpot.
