Aces Caught: $118,543 in Lumsden, SK and $26,567 in Brandon

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By Avery Chase Ellis · Last verified November 2, 2026 · Checked at the source

Two Prairie card lotteries ended within three days of each other. In Saskatchewan, the Lumsden & District Lions Club held the final draw it had announced for Thursday, October 29, and paid out the biggest jackpot in the province this year on Play the Ace. In Manitoba, the Kinsmen & Kinettes of Brandon's Chase the Ace finally gave up its Ace on Halloween night. Here's what each organiser has published, and what's still running near you.

Lumsden, SK: $118,543 jackpot on the final night

The Lumsden & District Lions Club ran Thursday-night draws at 8 p.m. at the Lumsden Hotel & Steak Pit, streamed live on its Facebook page, with $5 tickets sold by Lions members, at Lumsden Drugs and by e-transfer. In late October the club announced the round would end with a final draw on Thursday, October 29, 2026, whatever happened to the Ace. We covered that announcement in our Lumsden final-draw preview.

The club's Chase the Ace page, read November 2, now leads with the result:

Jackpot paid	$118,543.00
Final weekly draw	$18,513.00
Status	"Chase the Ace has come to an end for 2026. Please watch for us in February 2027."

Both final-night figures are well above the week before. On October 22 the page showed a $90,765 jackpot with 14 cards left and a $6,806 weekly prize; by the close of the final draw the jackpot stood at $118,543 and the weekly prize at $18,513. The club doesn't publish how many tickets were in the drum, so we can't say what drove the jump beyond the obvious: a lot of people wanted a ticket for the last night.

The page doesn't say which card or envelope closed the round, or spell out how the final draw was run. We're reporting what's posted, not filling the gaps. The Lumsden listing now shows "Ace caught · Final jackpot $118,543," and the round sits on our Recently caught page.

For scale: Lumsden's earlier rounds, described on the same page, paid Aces of $26,530 and $11,742. This one is in a different league.

Brandon, MB: "At long last the Ace was found"

The Kinsmen & Kinettes of Brandon ran a Saturday Chase the Ace with ticket sales from 6 to 8 p.m. before each draw, publicised on the clubs' Facebook page. It had been one of the closest games in the country to its Ace for weeks: six cards left after the October 17 update, five cards and a pot of $26,567 heading into the Halloween draw on Saturday, October 31.

That night, at 10:31 p.m., the clubs posted: "And at long last the Ace was found. Winner of $26,567.00 …" So the final jackpot is $26,567, exactly the figure on the sign the clubs had photographed earlier in the week. No new round has been announced. See our Brandon Kinsmen & Kinettes listing.

Five cards left means a drawn ticket had a 1-in-5 chance of opening the Ace. That's the half of the odds a shrinking deck improves. The other half, whether your ticket is the one drawn, depends only on how many tickets are sold that week, and the clubs don't publish that. Both halves are explained on our How it works page, along with why prize splits differ from one licence to the next.

What's running near you this week

With Lumsden gone, Saskatchewan's live games are all smaller pots; the full list is on our Saskatchewan Chase the Ace page. In Manitoba, the biggest game by far is Smack the Jack, also in Brandon, at $310,048 in week 18 as of November 2; the rest are on the Manitoba page.

Nationally, the pots to watch as of our November 2 check:

Loto Dame de Coeur (Gatineau, QC)	$6,101,195 in week 22, next draw Wednesday, November 4. The largest game we track by a wide margin. Listing
Russell Catch the Ace (Russell, ON)	the Kin Club's estimate for week 30 is $517,000 after the November 1 draw, the first reading above half a million in our records of this round (it was $490,000 on October 26). Listing
York County Sledders Chase the LAST Ace (Nackawic, NB)	four cards left, two of them Aces, pot "over $33,000," draw Tuesday, November 3. Listing
Chase the Ace Miscouche (PE)	$50,000 with 12 cards left, next draw Saturday, November 7. Listing

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Licensing and playing responsibly

Both of these were licensed charitable lotteries. In Saskatchewan, charitable gaming is regulated by the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority (SLGA); in Manitoba, by the Liquor, Gaming and Cannabis Authority of Manitoba (LGCA). Each licence sets its own prize split and eligibility rules. You generally need to be physically in the province to buy a ticket and to meet the minimum age in the lottery's own rules (18+ or 19+, depending on the game and province — check before you buy).

A final draw with a six-figure pot, or a deck down to five cards, can make a ticket feel like a sure thing. It isn't. Treat the ticket as a donation with a chance attached, set a budget before you buy, and don't raise it because a pot is growing or a deck is shrinking. If gambling stops being fun, free and confidential help is available: in Saskatchewan, the Problem Gambling Helpline, 1-800-306-6789; in Manitoba, the Manitoba Gambling Helpline, 1-800-463-1554. Help lines for every province are on our responsible gambling page.

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