REGINA - Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC) announced a Vault Breaker jackpot prize awarded by the Saskatchewan VLT program. Mary Caisse of Lac La Ronge Indian Band Reserve was awarded $1,006,667.68 after winning the grand jackpot on Vault Breaker at Eddie’s Place in La Ronge on January 22.
“I sat at the VLT machine as my husband played pool,” said Caisse. “I wasn’t paying much attention to what was happening, but when four Vault Breaker symbols fell in a row, I knew I had won something decent.”
“The last symbol kept spinning and spinning – it felt like it took forever to land,” she continued, laughing. “When it finally fell in place, I yelled for my husband to come over.”
The winner said she and her husband had a lot of feelings after seeing the prize amount.
“We started crying,” she explained. “We cried, we laughed – shocked, happy tears!”
The winner said she has a few ideas for her windfall.
“We’re going to buy a house and share with our family,” she said. “Just being able to help everyone get settled and more financially set-up, that’s a dream come true.”
Vault Breaker is a wide-area progressive that links 4,200 VLTs located in approximately 570 sites in 270 communities across the province. There are three mystery jackpot tiers: the province-wide grand jackpot has a minimum value of $500,000 and pays out before it hits $1.5 million, the regional major jackpot has a minimum value of $5,000 and pays out before it hits $25,000, and the local site jackpot minimum value is $100 and pays out before hitting $500. Any of the three jackpot tiers can be awarded when a patron plays Vault Breaker.
The province-wide jackpot has awarded $37,717,757.79, to 40 winners
