Kelowna News iN NUMBERS: You can’t win if you don’t play the lottery in B.C. Here are the numbers:3: Vernon residents have won big in the lottery so far in 2025. trucker won in the lottery, but his coworkers tried to sue claiming it was a lottery pool between colleagues. 52: Weeks is the deadline to redeem a winning lottery ticket after it’s printed. If you have any concerns about what you see in comments, email the editor in the link above.