(Submitted photo/Western Canada Lottery Corporation)

By Ben Tompkins

Big Winnings

Codette woman awarded nearly $1 million courtesy of Vault Breaker

Aug 23, 2022 | 2:00 PM

Codette resident Sandra Cameron won a whopping $947,084.87 after hitting the grand jackpot on Vault Breaker while visiting River Inn in Nipawin on Aug. 17.

Cameron said she was delighted when she realized she would be taking home the Vault Breaker jackpot.

After Cameron’s son picked her up from the River Inn, she shared the news of her windfall with him and her husband. She said at first both of them couldn’t believe it.

“I’m going to pay off my mortgage and just live,” the winner said in a press release sent to northeastNOW. “Now we don’t have to worry about money,” she added.

Cameron also plans to take her kids on vacation and put some of her recent windfall towards their education.

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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 provincewide grand jackpot has a minimum value of $500,000 and pays out before it hits $1.5 million, the major regional jackpot has a minimum value of $5,000 and pays out before it hits $25,000, and the local site jackpot minimum is $100 and pays out before hitting $500.

Any of the three jackpot tiers can be awarded when a patron plays Vault Breaker.

The provincewide jackpot has awarded $23,338,944.64 to 25 winners since June 2017. Vault Breaker’s provincewide grand jackpot has now been reset to $500,000.

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