Press release

Montréal, September 30, 2020 — Richard Boisvert and Diane Chaput Boisvert love to play scratch tickets. The couple, who reside in the Laurentides, lucked out big time with a 200X Multiplicateur ticket, winning the top prize of $2,000,000 on September 15.

In summary

• Lottery: 200X Multiplicateur
• Prize: $2,000,000
• Category: Top prize
• Claim date: September 15, 2020
• Winners’ place of residence: Laurentides
• Retailer: Marché Mont-Rolland (940 Rue Saint-Georges, Sainte-Adèle)
  The retailer will receive a 1% commission of $20,000.
• Claim centre: Loto-Québec head office, Montréal

Highlights

• Richard and Diane, who’ve been married for 44 years, play the lottery regularly.
• Diane is particularly fond of scratch tickets, which win her nice sums of money on a regular basis. “But never this big!” she exclaimed.
• Richard was driving when his wife scratched the ticket and suddenly asked him to pull over to the side of the road.
• She’d just scratched off number 46, meaning they’d won $10,000.
• It was only once Richard had stopped the car that Diane scratched the multiplier box and saw "200X."
• The couple initially made a miscalculation and thought they’d won $200,000.
• It was only when they got to the retailer did the winners realize they had pocketed “$2,000,000 instead,” the store owner told them!
• Now multimillionaires, they say they plan to finish paying off their mortgage and spoil their children and grandchildren.

COVID-19: How to claim your prize

As part of the collective effort to stop the spread of COVID-19 and protect the health and safety of its customers and employees, Loto-Québec has reopened its prize claim offices in Montréal and Quebec City by appointment only, and only for prize claims amounting to $10,000 or more. Right now, sending in your prize claim by mail is the safest and most efficient way to claim a prize amounting to less than $10,000. Prizes amounting to $600 or less can be claimed at any Loto-Québec retailer.

Please note: Owners of physical lottery tickets with an expiry date between March 17 and September 17, 2020, inclusively who’ve won a prize will have an additional six months to claim it. The payment terms for prizes won on lotoquebec.com remain the same.

About Loto-Québec

Loto-Québec’s mission is to responsibly and efficiently manage games of chance in a controlled and measured fashion in the interest of all Quebecers. Entertainment is at the heart of its activities. Between January 1 and September 28, 2020, Loto-Québec paid out 85 prizes of $1,000,000 or more to lottery winners. The Gagnant à vie and Grande Vie lotteries have provided 11 lucky winners with a lifetime annuity. Major prize winners are listed on the Winners page of the Lotteries website.