How to Play

Drop by one of our retail partner locations and fill out one of our registration forms. Each has a unique number, which is your player number. Register in one name only. You can register as many times as you like. That number/those numbers remain registered to you unless retired by you in writing.

Tear off and keep your copy of the form, depositing the registration portion in the treasure chest. You can start playing right away. You will receive email confirmation of your registration within 2 weeks; if you do not, please contact us.

To be eligible to win a weekly draw, you must play a toonie with your registered number on it that week. Print your number clearly on one of the yellow BTC stickers provided at the side of each of our chests. Attach one sticker to one side of the toonie and drop it in the chest.

The cut-off time for play each week is Wednesday at noon. Weekly draws from registered numbers are made every Wednesday afternoon. Winners are contacted by phone, and their name is announced on our social media and website, in our weekly newsletter,  in The Masthead News, and at participating retail locations.

See our rules of play here. 

Note: The draw’s value is 50% of the week’s total pool. If the number drawn has not been played that week, the pot is carried over and added to the next week’s prize. After four consecutive rollovers, draws will continue until a number that has been played that week is drawn. Winners have 90 days from draw date to claim their prize. Should a winner not collect their prize within 90 days, a second draw will be held.

 

Registered, active, inactive and retired—what does our BTC number terminology mean?

Each Bay Treasure Chest registration form is pre-printed with a unique number. When you complete a registration form and drop it into a BTC treasure chest, that unique pre-printed number is registered in your name by BTC personnel, and the number and your contact information is entered into our player database. That is now your registered number.

If you have played that number at least once during the previous year (that is, in the preceding 365 days), that number is considered to be an active number. If you have played that number during the week leading up to the draw, it is eligible to win that week’s draw. If the number is drawn but you have not played it that week, the result of the draw is a rollover, which means the value of the prize is rolled over to be added to the next week’s prize.

As of July 2, 2025, in response to a requirement from Alcohol, Gaming and Tobacco, which licenses our toonie draw, there is a new category of BTC number, called an inactive number.

An inactive number is a registered BTC number that has not been retired and has not been played in the preceding year. It is important to know that an inactive number is still eligible to win a draw. For example, if you haven’t played your registered BTC number for 14 months, and then decide to play it, the number will win that week’s prize if it is drawn.

However, if an inactive number is drawn that has not been played that week, it will not result in a rollover. Instead, another number will be drawn. Either an active number—one played at least once in the preceding year—or an inactive number that has been played that week can win if it is drawn. A rollover will occur only if an active number that has not been played that week is drawn.

The result of this change is that we will expect to have fewer rollovers.

A retired number is a number whose owner has contacted BTC to ask that the number be retired, or unregistered. A retired number cannot win a prize. If the owner of a registered number dies, their next of kin should, in writing, retire the number or request that it be transferred into another name.