UPDATE @ 10:55 p.m. (Nov. 9)
No one won the Queen of Hearts game tonight at The Whistle Stop in Ansonia. Now, only 10 cards remain.
UPDATE @ 9:30 p.m. (Nov. 2)
There are now 11 cards remaining after no one selected the Queen of Hearts in tonight’s game at The Whistle Stop in Ansonia.
The jackpot is $346,000.
UPDATE @ 10 p.m. (Oct. 28)
There was no winner for tonight’s Queen of Hearts game. The next drawing will be at 9 p.m. Nov. 2 at The Whistle Stop.
UPDATE @ 10 p.m. (Oct. 19)
The jackpot continues to grow after there was still no winner tonight for the Queen of Hearts game of chance at The Whistle Stop in Ansonia.
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There are now 13 cards remaining for the next drawing, which is set for 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28.
UPDATE @ 9:30 p.m. (Oct. 12)
Tonight there was still not a winner for the Queen of Hearts drawing at The Whistle Stop in Ansonia.
There are now 14 cards remaining for the next drawing.
UPDATE @ 9:40 p.m. (Oct. 5)
Once again, there is no winner for tonight’s Queen of Hearts drawing at The Whistle Stop in Ansonia.
There now are 15 cards remaining, with another drawing set for next Thursday.
Queen of Hearts is a legal game of chance in which the person holding the winning ticket pulled during a raffle has a chance to pick the Queen of Hearts from the remaining cards in the deck, according to Daryl Riffle, father of the owner of the Whistle Stop, 200 S. Main St.
UPDATE @ 9:54 p.m. (Sept. 28): No one won the record $350,000 jackpot in the Queen of Hearts drawing.
There now are only 16 cards remaining and the owner of The Whistle Stop in Ansonia said the weekly drawing will continue until someone wins.
UPDATE @8:15 a.m. (Sept. 28)
There’s another Queen of Hearts drawing at The Whistle Stop in Ansonia tonight, and the jackpot is estimated to be around $340,000.
Tickets will be sold up until 8:30 p.m. The drawing will happen around 9 p.m.
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UPDATE @ 10:15 p.m. (Sept. 21): Once again, there was no winner tonight in the Queen of Hearts drawing for a jackpot estimated at more than $326,000.
There are 17 cards remaining.
UPDATE @ 6 a.m. (Sept. 21):
There will be another Queen of Hearts drawing tonight at The Whistle Stop in Ansonia.
Last week, the jackpot was estimated to be $330,000.
Queen of Hearts is a legal game of chance, where the person holding the winning ticket pulled during a raffle has a chance to pick the Queen of Hearts from the remaining cards in the deck, according to Daryl Riffle, father of the owner of the Whistle Stop, 200 S. Main St.
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UPDATE @ 9:25 p.m. (Sept. 14):
Sorry, no winner in tonight’s jackpot drawing.
UPDATE @ 6:21 p.m. (Sept. 14):
There will be another Queen of Hearts drawing at The Whistle Stop restaurant in Ansonia tonight.
The jackpot is estimated to be $330,000. The drawing will happen at 9 p.m.
Queen of Hearts is a legal game of chance, where the person holding the winning ticket pulled during a raffle has a chance to pick the Queen of Hearts from the remaining cards in the deck, according to Daryl Riffle, father of the owner of the Whistle Stop, 200 S. Main St.
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UPDATE @ 9:17 p.m. (Aug. 31):
No one won tonight’s drawing.
Andrew Riffle, owner of The Whistle Stop and one of the chief organizers of the drawing, said he has heard that people from all over the state -- and Kentucky -- have been coming to Ansonia for the drawing, which now he guesses is in its 31st week.
"We're ready for somebody to walk away with a lot of money," he told News Center 7's James Buechele on Thursday night.
"If not, we'll keep going until somebody hits it."
Next week's drawing will be postponed because of a race event at Eldora Speedway that brings in about 40,000 fans. Riffle said Queen of Hearts organizers are going to let the sheriff's office concentrate on that event at Eldora.
He said he's lost a lot of sleep running the drawing. Two or three hours a night these days is good for him, he said.
"We're ready for it to be over," Riffle said.
"We've gotten the exposure we wanted." The charities for which the event was created have done well, he noted, having attracted more than $50,000 in donations.
When someone wins the jackpot, Riffle said the drawing will take a break until Spring 2018.
Jim Moore said he bought "plenty" of tickets for his first turn at the jackpot. He traveled to Ansonia from Fort Loramie and thought tonight would be his lucky night.
EARLIER REPORT
The jackpot for the Queen of Hearts game at The Whistle Stop restaurant in Ansonia is estimated to be around $300,000 when the business draws tonight’s winning ticket for a chance at the pot, according to the business.
The drawing has grown so large that the business has been working with local law enforcement agencies to keep employees, customers and residents safe during the event.
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Tickets for the game are $1 each and sales are cut off at 8:45 p.m. Thursday. The winning ticket will be selected at 9 p.m., Riffle said.
The business also has a 53-foot semi trailer that will be used to project tonight’s Ohio State Buckeyes football game on.
Ansonia police and the Darke County Sheriff’s Office will be supplying extra patrols for tonight’s event.
The Whistle Stop started the Queen of Hearts game at the business last year and are currently on the third game since it began, Riffle said.
