Toronto, ON – Catherine (Cathy) Cole of Lanark is celebrating after winning a $500,000 top prize with INSTANT PLINKO (Game #2289)!

Cathy, who works in childcare, has been playing INSTANT games with OLG for a couple of years. When she chose what would become her big winning ticket, it was the last of its kind in the store’s display. Cathy was in disbelief when she discovered she would soon be heading to the OLG Prize Centre to drop a PLINKO Chip. Little did she know, she would walk away with an incredible $500,000!

“When I won a CHIP prize on my ticket and had it validated at the store, I was expecting to win $10 or $20,” Cathy said, while visiting the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto. “When the animated chip landed on PLINKO, I froze, and my brain was fuzzy with shock. The clerk confirmed I’d won the PLINKO Event! I was so excited that I called my husband to join me at the store. We cheered and honked the whole drive home.”

The day soon arrived for Cathy to find out how much she would be taking home. As she dropped her Chip down PLINKO board, she was filled with hope and gratitude. “When the Chip landed, the crowd in the room started to cheer, but I couldn’t see anything and had no idea how much I’d won,” said Cathy. “Hearing the announcement that I’d won $500,000 was such an unreal experience! I was shocked and so happy—it was more than I’d hoped for.”

“I feel so blessed,” Cathy beamed. This whole experience has been a first for me. I never imagined I’d be here, collecting a prize like this. I think the most I’d ever won before this was $100,” she chuckled. “It feels great!”

“This money will be invested and put toward building the dream home we’ve been saving for. Our dream will soon become our reality,” Cathy concluded with a big smile.

$5 INSTANT PLINKO combines popular scratch play with prizes revealed in-store by an animated chip drop on the lottery terminal screen and potentially, the chance to drop a chip on a real PLINKO Board at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto.

There are three fun ways to win with INSTANT PLINKO:

1. SCRATCH – Scratch the five (5) LUCKY NUMBERS and twenty-four (24) YOUR NUMBERS entirely. Match any one of the LUCKY NUMBERS to one of YOUR NUMBERS, win the corresponding prize from $5 to $100,000 or a CHIP prize.
2. WATCH – If the prize won is CHIP, visit any OLG retail location to validate your ticket. Upon validation of a CHIP winner, watch the animated PLINKO chip drop on the lottery terminal screen to reveal your prize from $10 to $10,000 or a PLINKO top prize.
3. DROP – If the prize displayed is PLINKO, you qualify for a PLINKO Event at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto to win a guaranteed prize of $100,000 to $500,000.

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The winning ticket was purchased at Pretty Goods Groceries on George Street in Lanark.

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