NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO LOTTERY AND GAMING CORPORATION
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TORONTO – Congratulations to Melissa Gagnon of Barrie for winning $100,000 with THE BIG SPIN INSTANT game (Game #3100).
Melissa, a 24-year-old mother of three, said she is not a regular lottery player and purchased a BIG SPIN ticket because she wanted to play that day. “When I scanned the ticket on my phone, I didn’t believe it at first,” she shared while at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto to pick up her winnings. “I told my mom and then my fiancé! He thought I was joking.”
The personal support worker plans to put some money away for her children, pay for her upcoming wedding and save some for a house.
OLG is currently booking in-person prize claim appointments at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto only for those claims that require a face-to-face interview. Customers with prizes over $50,000 are asked to call 1-800-387-0098 to discuss available prize claim options. Prize claims up to $49,999.90 should continue to be submitted by mail. The health and safety of our customers and employees remains our top priority and OLG looks forward to providing future updates on the further availability of in-person prize claims.
THE BIG SPIN INSTANT game is an exciting $5 game that combines popular scratch play with prizes revealed in-store by an animated spinning wheel on the lottery terminal screen and potentially, an in-person spin on THE BIG SPIN Wheel at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto.
THE BIG SPIN INSTANT game has three fun ways to win:
- SCRATCH – To win an instant cash prize of $5 to $100,000 or a SPIN prize.
- WATCH – If the prize won is SPIN, visit any OLG retail location to validate the ticket and watch the animated wheel spin on the lottery terminal screen. Every “SPIN” is a guaranteed win! SPIN prizes range from $10 to $10,000 or a BIG SPIN.
- SPIN – If the animated wheel stops on “BIG SPIN,” the prize won is an actual spin on THE BIG SPIN Wheel at the OLG Prize Centre for a guaranteed prize of $100,000 to $500,000!
The winning ticket was purchased at Pioneer On The Run on Yonge Street in Innisfil.
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