Sport Select PROLINE (WCLC): how it works in the Prairies

Sport Select is the sports lottery of the Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC), and PRO•LINE is its best-known bet type. If you searched for "Sports Select PROLINE" or "WCLC PROLINE", this is the game sold at Lotto Spot retailers in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. This guide covers how a ticket works, each bet type, the PRO•LINE tie rules, the wager and prize limits, what you can and cannot do online, and how to claim a prize. Everything below comes from WCLC's game conditions, its Sport Select site and the provincial lottery bodies.

What is Sport Select?

WCLC is authorized to run lotteries in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and in Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Sport Select is its family of sports wagering games. In Alberta, the AGLC (Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis) offers Sport Select in partnership with WCLC, and wagers can only be placed at official WCLC retailers.

Sport Select includes several games:

• SPORT SELECT, the main ticket, where you mix PRO•LINE, POINT SPREAD, OVER/UNDER and PROPS picks.
• Combo Play, an option that pays on combinations of your picks.
• POOLS, where you predict every game on a card and share a prize pool.
• FUTURES, a single pick on a championship-type outcome.
• PRO•LINE Golf, which has its own game conditions.

This is a different product from OLG's PROLINE and PROLINE+ in Ontario, and from BCLC's retail PROLINE in British Columbia. The names overlap, but the rules, limits and tickets do not.

How a Sport Select ticket works

You can fill out a paper selection slip at a Lotto Spot retailer, or build your picks on sportselect.com, generate a QR code, and have a retailer scan it to print the ticket. WCLC's game conditions are explicit that a QR code is not a ticket. Only the printed ticket counts.

The core rules:

• Up to 8 picks per ticket, from the active event list.
• One pick per event. You cannot mix wager types on the same event.
• Single-event wagers are allowed only on events marked as such on the event list. Otherwise you combine events.
• Wager of $2 to $100 per ticket.
• All picks must be correct to win on a standard ticket.
• You must buy before the earliest event on the ticket starts.
• The odds printed on your ticket are the official ones. Odds and lines can change at any time before you buy.

Your prize is the wager multiplied by the odds of each winning pick. A $10 ticket with three picks at 1.80, 2.10 and 1.50 pays $10 x 1.80 x 2.10 x 1.50 = $56.70. Our parlay calculator does the same multiplication for any set of picks.

If an event is cancelled, has an unknown result, was already under way when the ticket printed, or lands exactly on a flat line, that pick is given odds of 1.00 and the rest of the ticket stands. If every pick ends up at 1.00, you get your wager back.

A ticket can be cancelled only at the retailer that issued it, on the same business day, and before the earliest event starts.

Bet types: PRO•LINE, Point Spread, Over/Under and Props

PRO•LINE. You pick the visitor (V), a tie (T) or the home team (H). The catch is that a PRO•LINE "tie" is not always a tied game. WCLC defines it by sport:

So an NFL game won by 3 points is a PRO•LINE tie, and a hockey game won in overtime is also a tie. Read the tie rule for your sport before you pick H or V.

POINT SPREAD. You pick V or H against a line. With a spread of -2.5, an underdog pick wins if the underdog wins, ties or loses by one or two points. Lines can be flat (such as 3.0) or half-point (such as 2.5). On a flat line, a result exactly on the number is a push and the pick gets odds of 1.00.

OVER/UNDER. You pick O or U on a total. The same overtime rules as PRO•LINE apply for each sport, and flat lines push the same way.

PROPS. Two players in the same game go head to head, for example in total bases or hockey points, and you pick who comes out ahead. A player must take part as the conditions require, otherwise the pick gets odds of 1.00.

For how decimal odds and implied probability work, see our betting odds guide.

Combo Play, Pools and Futures

Combo Play lets you win even when some picks miss. You choose a 2, 3, 4 or 5-event combo, and the ticket covers every combination of that size among your picks. The ticket costs your wager, from $2 to $20, times the number of combinations. WCLC's own example: a 3-event combo on 4 picks makes 4 combinations, so a $2 wager costs $8, and $10 if you add the standard play. Each combination pays only if all its picks are correct. Potential payouts are not shown in advance on Combo Play.

POOLS costs $5 for a single play, with box plays at $10, $20, $40 and $80 that cover both sides of up to four games. You predict every game on the card, and the prize pool goes to the entries with the most correct picks.

FUTURES takes one pick from one event per ticket, with a wager of $2 to $100. Under the FUTURES game conditions that took effect on September 1, 2026, the odds printed on your ticket at purchase are the ones that count (section 2(c)), one ticket can win at most $99,900 (section 6(a)), and a cancelled event, or a tie between two winning predictions where the event has no tie option, is settled at odds of 1.00, which returns your stake (sections 3(c), 3(j)). A postponed event has to start within one calendar month of its original date or it is cancelled (section 8(d)). Season-long CFL markets such as the Grey Cup winner are explained in our CFL and Grey Cup betting guide.

Limits: how much can you win?

WCLC publishes two prize caps for Sport Select:

• $250,000 per ticket. The ticket builder will not let you place picks that would go over this.
• $5,000,000 per day across all Sport Select tickets. If a day's prizes would exceed that, each winning ticket is reduced by a formula that returns the wager plus a proportional share.

With a $100 maximum wager, the per-ticket cap only comes into play on long parlays at high odds.

Rules on postponed and cancelled games

Sport Select cancels a pick, at odds of 1.00, when an event is not completed within a set window:

• Football: 7 days from the scheduled start.
• Basketball, hockey and soccer: 48 hours.
• Baseball: by 5 a.m. Central Time the day after the scheduled start, with 48 hours for suspended MLB playoff games.
• MMA and boxing: 48 hours, and a no-contest or a change to the scheduled rounds also cancels the pick.

A football, basketball or hockey game abandoned with 5 minutes or less left stands if the governing body recognizes the result. A venue change that swaps home and away cancels the pick.

Can you play Sport Select online?

Not as such. WCLC states that it does not sell lottery tickets on the internet, apart from subscriptions for Saskatchewan residents. On sportselect.com you can check odds and build a ticket, but you still need a Lotto Spot retailer to print it.

Online sports betting in the Prairies runs through separate provincial sites, each with its own rules and limits:

• Alberta: PlayAlberta, run by the AGLC, offers moneyline, point spread, over/under and props, with single and multi-event wagers, for players over 18. Alberta also has a regulated market for registered private operators. Our Alberta page explains how it works.
• Saskatchewan: PlayNow.com launched on 3 November 2022 with sports betting for players aged 19 and older. SaskGaming manages it, the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority operates it, and it runs on BCLC's PlayNow platform.
• Manitoba: Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries offers single-event sports betting on PlayNow.com, which it calls Manitoba's only legal online gambling site.

Saskatchewan and Manitoba use the same BCLC platform as British Columbia. Our PlayNow Sports review covers BCLC's version; the provincial sites have their own accounts and terms. For a province-by-province overview, see is sports betting legal in Canada.

How to check a ticket and claim a prize

Results are entered overnight, so a ticket shows no win until the day after its last event. Then:

• Up to $100: validated automatically when the retailer scans the ticket, and the retailer pays or arranges payment.
• $100.01 to $1,000: participating Lotto Spot retailers can pay up to and including $1,000 if they have the cash, but they may decline prizes over $100 and send you elsewhere.
• Over $1,000: claim at a WCLC prize payout office, by appointment only, or by mail. Prizes are not paid during the appointment; they are ready at a later date.

Prize offices are in St. Albert and Calgary (Alberta), Saskatoon and Regina (Saskatchewan), Winnipeg (Manitoba) and Yellowknife (NWT and Nunavut). Mail claims go to WCLC Prize Payout, Suite 300, 242 Hargrave Street, Winnipeg, MB R3C 0T8. Call WCLC Player Care at 1-800-665-3313 first for large prizes or mail claims.

Before claiming, sign the ticket and fill in the claim form on the back. Sport Select prizes must be claimed within one year of the last event on the ticket. For Futures, the year starts when WCLC declares the final result. Expired tickets are not paid.

Age and responsible play

WCLC's Sport Select playbook says anyone under 18 is refused the purchase or redemption of tickets, and anyone who looks under 25 should expect to be asked for photo ID. Online provincial sites set their own ages, such as 19 on PlayNow in Saskatchewan. Our guide to the gambling age in Canada compares these limits across all provinces and territories.

Every pick on a standard ticket must win, so each pick you add lowers your chance of collecting. Set a budget before you buy, and use your province's responsible gambling services if you need them. Our responsible gambling page lists them.

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