Contest Rules

Contest Rules for the $10,000 Mystery Contest on 101.5 TODAY Radio

(updated September 2023)
A DIVISION OF PATTISON MEDIA LTD. (“PATTISON”)

$10,000 MYSTERY ALTERNATE RULES AND REGULATIONS

Application

These rules and regulations (the “Rules”) apply to the “$10,000 Mystery Contest” (the "Contest"). These rules are in addition to the Contest Rules found here (https://www.1015todayradio.com/contestrules/). If there are any discrepancies between these Rules and regulations and any other rules and regulations posted for any particular Contest (the "Alternate Rules"), such discrepancy shall be resolved in favour of the Alternate Rules.

Eligibility

The Contest is open to legal residents of Alberta, Canada (excluding residents of Quebec) who have reached the age of majority (18). No person who is employed by Pattison or its affiliate companies, and no family member of such employee, shall be entitled to enter the Contest.

How to Enter

There is no purchase necessary to enter the $10,000 Mystery Contest.

Upon hearing the cue-to-call, listeners who wish to participate will be asked to text a code word to the station phone number, 403-225-1015. From all text messages, one listener will be selected at random, and called to participate in the contest. If they answer the call, the contest will proceed with that listener. If they do not answer the phone call, another listener will be selected at random and called to participate in the contest.

Each participant will be allowed to ask one “yes or no” question to see if that helps them determine the answer to the mystery. The participant will then guess the answer to the mystery. The participant will only be allowed one guess per contest play.

If the participant successfully solves the mystery, they will be declared a potential winner. Upon being declared a potential winner, the caller will be required to answer, unaided, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question. Upon correctly answering that question, the potential winner will be declared the winner.

Callers shall be responsible for any personal phone charges or any other fees associated with entering the Contest via texting and receiving a phone call from the radio station.

Value

The Prize for solving each mystery is $10,000 CDN. This prize will be provided to the successful winner who solves the mystery in form of a cheque. The prize must be accepted as awarded and may not be transferred to any third party.

Odds of Winning

The odds of winning the Contest are dependent on the number of text entries attempting to enter the Contest at any given time.

Liability

The winner acknowledges that the collection or use of any prize may be inherently dangerous and agrees to release and hold harmless Pattison for any and all damages they may incur through entering the Contest or through the collection or use of the prize. The winner also agrees to sign a standard release and waiver of liability prior to claiming the prize which will generally be provided.

Notwithstanding the execution or provision of the aforementioned standard release and waiver, each entrant and any potential or declared winner, by participating in and entering the Contest, releases Pattison, their subsidiaries, respective divisions, their parent corporations, their advertising and promotional agencies, their shareholders, officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives (hereinafter the “Beneficiaries”) from any and all liability for any and all damage, loss or liability suffered as a result of or arising from the entrant’s participation in the Contest or the acceptance or use of any Contest prize. In order to be declared a winner, and prior to obtaining the prize, any potential or declared winner agrees to sign a declaration to such effect in the release form. The guest(s) of a winner (or a parent or legal guardian in the case of a minor) will also have to sign such a declaration to that effect in the release form, failing which they will not be able to take part in the prize.

Release of Privacy Rights

By entering the Contest, each declared winner consents to the contest organizers and their representatives using, at their sole discretion and if required, their name, photograph, likeness, testimonial related to the prize, place of residence and/or voice without compensation whatsoever and that, without limit as for the period of use, in any media and on a worldwide scale, for publicity purposes or for any purpose that may be considered relevant. By entering the Contest, participants also agree to be bound by Pattison’s Privacy Policy which can be found on our website, by clicking here.

General

This narrative is a work of fiction. No factual claims are made, and any similarities are entirely coincidental. This document should not be construed as a representation or assertion of actual events.

Prize winners shall be responsible for all costs and expenses not explicitly stated to form part of the prize, including but not limited to taxes, fees, gratuities, insurance, or travel to and from the airport where a prize includes travel unless anything contrary is expressly provided for in the description of any such prize.

Pattison may at its sole discretion substitute a prize or a portion thereof with an alternate prize of similar nature of equal or greater value. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Pattison shall not be responsible to substitute a prize or portion thereof where such prize cannot be redeemed due to factors beyond its reasonable control.

Pattison reserve the right, at their sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend this Contest, in whole or in part, in the case of the occurrence of an event, an error or any human intervention that could corrupt or affect the administration, safety, impartiality or the running of the Contest as provided in these Rules.

All decisions of Pattison or those of their representatives regarding this Contest are final and binding.

The winner also agrees to abide by any rules and regulations for pick up or delivery of any prize won, any such rules to be provided by Pattison for a particular Contest prize.

By entering the Contest, all persons are deemed to have read and to have accepted these Rules.