Well, it’s been six months since I lasted tallied up the 50/50 winnings in Burns Lake, BC. As a recap, the little town of 2,000, roughly 0.05% of BC’s population, has been winning between 5 – 10% of all the BC 50/50 draws, and hauling in a small fortune. First let’s crunch the numbers.
July ’17: 10 wins, $17,701
August: 13 wins, $31,465
September: 7 wins, $15,527
October: 7 wins, $20.906.50
November: 6 wins, $13,070.50
December: 6 wins, $16,647.
Last six months of 2017: 49 wins, $115,317.
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Grand total for the year: $202,014.
The average person in Burns Lake won $100 last year on this lottery.
I received quite a few comments on the previous blogs, mostly by people who think something shady is taking place. I always kept away from saying I thought it was dishonest. My position has been that there must be a huge amount of tickets sold there. One person from Burns Lake wrote me to say there’s nothing much else to do there, and that I should concentrate on figuring out why so many million dollar jackpots get won in Ontario and Quebec. That answer is easy: of the 36 million Canadians, about 22 million people live in those two provinces, and the winning of jackpots is distributed more or less the way you’d expect. Burns Lake is to BC, population-wise, what Salmon Arm is to Canada. If suddenly 7 or 8% of the 6-49 and Lotto Max jackpots were getting won in Salmon Arm, a few eyebrows would be raised, to say the least.
My question for the BC Lottery Corporation was why they aren’t printing the photos of big winners from Burns Lake like they do winners from other towns. They used to publish a photo of anyone winning above $10,000, but now they seem content just to print the names of winners. It was one of the first things I asked when I first wrote on this topic – is it a town-wide mania or are there a few people winning repeatedly? Sadly (for curious people) the names of several $10,000+ winners from Burns Lake were never printed. The only winner who got their name published was someone who lived elsewhere, but bought the ticket there. BCLC did write me back, but they only said the pictures and names missing was probably due to the winners not having picked their prizes up yet. I hope the person who won $12,192 in March and never got named or photographed has picked their prize up, otherwise it will be expiring soon.
The response I got from BCLC came in October. The woman who wrote the letter said there had been an inquiry into this situation, and that the town of Burns Lake buys between 6 and 8% of all the tickets sold in the province. Since that matches their winning percentage, it would settle the matter. She told me twice, in case I missed it the first time, that the numbers were drawn electronically in Kamloops and couldn’t be tampered with. She also told me that if I wanted to know the identities of the winners, I could fill in a Freedom Of Information request, for which she sent me the link. I stopped short of doing that. Some kind of ‘stalker alarm’ went off in my head and I decided to let it go. Why should I snoop on people whose only misdemeanour is being lucky? I may reconsider, but it won’t be today.