The in-person service will no longer be available in Sault Ste. Marie as that office will now be responsible for all mailed-in prize claims from across the province. The Sault prize office was handling, on average, only nine winners a day, and many of those winners could have sent in their tickets or claimed their prizes at a lottery retailer. The Ontario Lottery Corporation is a Crown corporation responsible for operating lottery games in Ontario. It is a provincial offence, punishable by fines, to sell OLC lottery tickets to anyone under 18 years of age.
Players have one year to claim their prizes.
Unclaimed prize money is returned to lottery players in the form of additional prizes as part of special promotions and bonus draws. More than half the adults in Ontario play OLC games.