How To Play Queen Of Hearts Drawing

Search for the Queen of Hearts is an canonical weekly progressive raffle governed by the Constitution and Statutes of the Chivalrous and Protective Lodge of ELKS of the UsA. and the Florida Statutes on Gambling Chapter 849.

To begin, 54 playing cards including two jokers are placed in sealed envelopes, face down on a mounting board purchased from a certified gaming vendor; the envelopes are numbered i (ane) through fifty four (54). The game board will be displayed and sealed in the Social Quarters, with the QUEEN OF HEARTS every bit the "Jackpot Card" and a Stop Card that was randomly picked before and placed in an envelope.

Any good standing member of the ELKS is eligible to play.

Suggested minimum donation per ticket is $5; $20 for 5 tickets, with no limit on the number of tickets purchased. There tin can be more than i name per ticket, equally long equally all names listed are Elks in adept standing. Write your name and the number of the available carte du jour yous're requesting (in case you're not present; otherwise, a card will be selected for you) legibly on the back of the ticket put it in the drib box with the donation. Do not write nicknames or abbreviations. Tickets tin can exist purchased immediately after the drawing up to five minutes before the fourth dimension of the adjacent cartoon, currently a 7:10 pm Wednesday cutoff.

Drawings will be held at the Lodge each Wednesday (unless otherwise posted) at 7:15 pm. One ticket is drawn each week from all tickets sold that week to make up one's mind who wins the opportunity to "Search for the Queen of Hearts" playing bill of fare. Ticket holder demand not be nowadays to win. Queen of Hearts chairperson will ask a volunteer to plow over a card on your behalf if you did not identify which number bill of fare y'all requested, or if the number you requested was previously selected. Remember that in that location is a new cartoon every week. This means that subsequently the drawing, the non-winning tickets are thrown away. Likewise, the Stop Card will reset the game. As the weeks get by, the pot grows bigger and bigger. Also, in that location will exist less and less cards to choose from which increases the odds of finding the Queen of Hearts, unless the Stop Card resets the game..

The prize pool is adamant before the offset of the raffle. The total prize pool will proceed to accrue weekly (after the initial the initial prize pool amount is recouped) until the QUEEN OF HEARTS or Stop Card is drawn. The jackpot amount, based on ticket sales, will be updated weekly and prominently displayed in the Social Quarters. Sixty percent of all ticket donations go into the jackpot.

If your name is drawn, you choose a card. Each winner shall select 1 sealed face downward playing card; if that playing card is the Queen of Hearts the holder of the winning raffle ticket shall be awarded 100% (2/3 if NOT Nowadays) of the Jackpot. Forty percent of the ticket donation corporeality volition go to the ELKS Vero Beach Lodge 1774 for expenses and clemency. If the QUEEN OF HEARTS is not fatigued the winning payouts of the Queen'due south treasure are the following:

All cards ii-10, any conform win 25
Jacks and Kings win twoscore
Any Ace wins l
Stop Card wins 25
Each Joker wins 75
All Queens, other than the Queen of Hearts, win 100
Queen of Hearts wins 100% (two/three if NOT Nowadays) of the Jackpot

Jackpot will be calculated prior to the Drawing.

If a person is not nowadays, they can designate a card number on their ticket or a card volition be drawn randomly.

One time a card is selected, it will be removed from play by cartoon a diagonal line on the card'southward face and placing the bill of fare face upwards on the lath. Each week afterward the drawing, all tickets for that calendar week's drawing volition be destroyed.

If the Stop Menu was fatigued, the game resets with a new deck of cards.

All winning players are responsible for any and all taxes. A W2-G (1099) volition exist issued for prizes over 600. NO prize over 600 will exist paid until the W2-One thousand data is completely filled out. If a player is unwilling or unable to provide W2-G information, the prize will revert to the order.

The winner must provide photograph identification and a valid Elks membership card. Taxes will be assessed on any prize over v,000 and remitted to the IRS. A winner from an out of country lodge may besides have state taxes withheld in accord with the laws of his or her state.

The proceeds from the electric current calendar week'southward sales will non exist included in the current week'due south jackpot. If the queen of hearts is not selected in the current week's drawing, then the current week's sales volition be split 60-twoscore equally described in section 7 higher up. However, if the Queen of Hearts is drawn, then 100% of that calendar week'south sales will exist used to fund the new jackpot. Donations to the Order clemency account will be suspended for that calendar week.