Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board CHASE THE ACE “RAFFLE”
OFFICIAL RULES: By participating, entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and by the decisions of the Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board, which shall be binding and final as to all matters related to the RAFFLE. The RAFFLE is subject to all applicable federal, provincial and local laws. Licence #LR25-0034
NET PROCEEDS: All net proceeds of the Raffle will benefit Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board, and the capital project programs that Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board supports.
CHASE THE ACE GAME:
PURCHASING RAFFLE ENTRIES
PRICE: The following prices and corresponding “ticket variations” are available for purchase: 3 tickets for $10, 10 tickets for $20.00, and 50 tickets for $50.00.
TICKET AVAILABILITY: Tickets available for purchase every week on our website, https://www.bienfait.ca or in person at the Town Office starting Friday, July 11, 2025 with the first draw being Friday, July 18, 2025 at 6:30 pm and concluding no later than Friday, July 10, 2026. Tickets can also be purchased on the date of the draw from 4:00 – 6:15pm. Cut-off for ticket purchases will be at 6:15 pm every Friday the raffle is active with the draw being at 6:30pm. Sales will resume at approximately 7:00 pm after each draw for the following week for a maximum of 51 more weeks. There will be no draw on Friday Dec 26, 2025. Tickets only available to be purchased or sold in Saskatchewan. Ticket purchasers must be at least 18 years of age or older. Tickets purchased in person will be purchased using the a handheld terminal.
Members of the organization, sponsors and their immediate families are eligible to purchase tickets for the raffle. Persons not eligible to purchase tickets are the Rec Director Sarah Yoner as well as the directors, employees or executives of Tap 50:50 Event Consultants Ltd.
GENERALITIES OF THE GAME
WINNER SELECTION: A single ticket number will be selected each draw by a gaming lab certified Random Number Generator (RNG) from all raffle ticket numbers sold during the week leading up to the draw. Draws will be made at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 169, 506 Railway Ave Bienfait SK. The draw will be made at 6:30pm and will be live streamed on Facebook every draw date. Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board will have a minimum of three people present at each draw. Purchasers do not need to be present to win. If the winning ticket has more than one name on it, the prize will be awarded to the first person’s name on the ticket. It is the responsibility of the ticket holder to distribute the winnings. Draws are regularly held at the Legion (506 Railway Ave Bienfait Sk S0C 0M0). A secondary draw location, the Beinfait Pool (326 White St. Bienfait Sk S0C 0M0) will be used when the Legion is closed for the summer in July and August. A third draw location, the Bienfait Memorial Arena (242 Carbon Ave Bienfait Sk S0C 0M0) will be used on "special" selective dates (Oct 24, 2025 April 3, 2026 and April 10, 2026) when access to the legion is not available.
WEEKLY WINNER: The weekly draw winner will receive a single prize equal to 20 percent of all ticket sales collected during the week and have a chance to win the progressive jackpot by finding the Ace of Spades from a standard deck of 52 playing cards shuffled and placed face down on a numbered board from 1 to 52. If the winner is not present at the draw, the winner will be contacted by phone and given 15 minutes to come down and select a card or can select a card by selecting a board number from the remaining numbered board spots. The winner will be called 3 times at the phone number they provided within a 15 minute time frame. If the winner cannot be reached, a designated proxy (Daniyale Woolsey or Ken Bonokoski) will select a card for the weekly winner. If the card revealed is not the Ace of Spades, the selected card is eliminated from the following week’s available cards, the highest numbered board spot is eliminated from the board for the next draw’s card placement and the game continues. Week 1 board spots will be 1 to 52, Week 2 will be 1 to 51, Week 3 will be 1 to 50, Week 4 will be 1 to 49, etc. All tickets from the previous week are then voided and ticket sales commence for the next weekly draw. If the Ace of Spades is drawn on the first week, the winner will receive 50% of the first week’s ticket sales. There is a maximum number of 500,000 tickets available for sale.
PROGRESSIVE JACKPOT: If the card selected reveals the Ace of Spades the weekly draw winner will also receive the Chase the Ace Progressive Jackpot, consisting of 30 percent of all ticket sales collected over all the weeks. If the Ace of Spades is not drawn the Progressive Jackpot carries over to the next week. Once the Ace of Spades is drawn the raffle will conclude. It will then be up to Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board if they wish to restart the raffle over again under the current licence, depending on the time left in the raffle with the approval of SLGA.
GAME PLAY OUT: If the current game is not concluded by the end of the licensing period the game will be played out on the last Friday of the license which will be July 10, 2026. RNG draws will be made and cards selected until there is a winner. There will be no sales between these draws and if the 20% prize weekly winner does not choose the ace, only the 30% progressive jackpot will be eligible to be won by subsequent draws.
NUMBER OF TICKETS: Maximum number of tickets 500,000 with maximum sales of $500,000 and a total maximum prize value of all the weekly prizes and progressive jackpot of $250,000
POSTING WINNERS: The winner’s name will be posted on the Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board web page following each weekly draw, along with the weekly prize amount and the revealed playing card associated with the weekly winning ticket.
CARD SECURITY: A standard deck of 52 playing cards will originally be counted and the Ace of Spades confirmed to be in the deck. After each week’s card selection, the remaining cards will be secured by licensee until the next draw.
UNCLAIMED PRIZES: Will be secured for a period of 1 year following each weekly draw. Unclaimed prizes after this time period will be reported to, and a charitable allocation will be approved by, the SLGA.
CLAIMANTS: The winner must provide their full name, address and phone number and identification upon claiming their prize.
PRIVACY: By claiming a prize, winner consents to the use of their likeness/photograph, first and last name, ticket number, city/town of residence and the audio/video recording (or written transcription) of the winner notification telephone call, for any publicity purposes by Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board. Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board respects the privacy of its raffle supporters; we do not sell, rent, or trade our supporter lists. The information we collect is used to process raffle ticket purchases, keep our supporters informed about the activities of Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board, and ask for their support for our mission. Participating in the raffle provides consent for the Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board to send messages/promotions by SMS and/or email. If at any time you wish to be excluded from such contacts, email [email protected] and we will accommodate your request.
For questions or info contact Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board at 306-388-2969 or by email at [email protected]
LEGAL
DETERMINATION OF OFFICIAL WINNER(S): Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board shall have the sole discretion to determine whether each Potential Winner is an official winner of a Prize (an “Official Winner”). Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board’s decision concerning the identity of all Official Winners shall be final and binding. A Potential Winner must be eligible to participate in the Raffle under these Official Rules and must not be in violation of these Official Rules as determined in Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board’s sole judgment;
AWARD OF PRIZE(S) TO OFFICIAL WINNER(S): A Prize will be awarded to each Potential Winner who has been designated by Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board as an Official Winner. All prizes will be sent to the winner via Cheque within 5 business days of winning. For security and safety reasons, no cash payments will be made to winners.
GENERAL CONDITIONS: The Released Parties (defined below under “RELEASE OF LIABILITY”) are not responsible for: (1) Entries which are stolen, lost, damaged, illegible, given away or no longer in the purchaser’s possession, (2) Entries that have been or may have been tampered with or re-sold in violation of these Official Rules; (3) Entries or payments that are delayed, misdirected, undelivered, not fully captured, or garbled as a result of any failure or problem whatsoever with the availability, functionality, operability or use of any network, server, ISP, website, computer, telephone, cable or satellite modem or connection, hand held mobile device or any other computer equipment or connection, whether or not caused by site users, tampering, hacking, or by viruses, worms, or malfunctions affecting a network, server ISP or any equipment or programming used in or associated with the Raffle; (4) any other errors of any kind, whether human, typographical, printing, mechanical, or electronic in nature, which relate to or are connected with the Raffle (collectively, as described in clauses (1) through (4), “Errors”), including without limitation Errors in Raffle-related materials or in the administration of the Raffle, such as Errors in processing Entries, identifying Potential Winners, determining Official Winners, or announcing or delivering Prizes; or If any portion of the Raffle is compromised, in Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board’s sole judgment, by a virus, worm, bug, non-authorized human intervention or other causes which, in Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board’s sole judgment, corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play of the Raffle, or the proper submission or capture of Entries (collectively, a “Compromising Event”), then Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend, modify or terminate the Raffle, and to select winners from all eligible, non-suspect Entries received before the known occurrence or discovery of such Comprising Event. All Entry purchases shall be final, and no refunds or replacements will be issued by Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board. Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board has sole and final decision on admissibility of entries and the determination of prize winner.
RELEASE OF LIABILITY: Entrants, by participating in the Raffle, agree that Bienfait Centennial Parks and Recreation Board and Tap 50:50, each of their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, partners, and advertising and promotion agencies, and all of their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives, shareholders, members, consultants and agents (collectively, the “Released Parties”) will have no liability whatsoever for, and shall be held harmless by entrants against, any liability for injuries, losses, cost, expenses or damages of any kind, including damages for death, personal injury, property damage.