Yes. Alberta players can play WCLC Keno at lottery retailers, with a fresh draw about every 5 minutes, plus video keno machines at casinos across the province. Here is how it works and where to play.
Alberta has keno in two forms. The main one is WCLC Keno, the lottery keno game run by the Western Canada Lottery Corporation and sold at lottery retailers throughout the province. A new draw happens roughly every 5 minutes: you pick 1 to 10 numbers from a field of 1 to 80, 20 numbers are drawn, and you win based on how many you match, up to a maximum prize of $100,000 per draw.
In Alberta the lottery is administered by the Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis (AGLC) using the WCLC Keno game, so the rules, draw schedule, and prizes are the same across the Prairie provinces. You must be 18 or older to play.
Pick 1 to 10 numbers from 1 to 80 and choose a wager of $1, $2, $5 or $10. In Alberta the draws run on Mountain Time, from 4:30 am to 2:30 am MT, with a fresh draw every 5 minutes and tickets on sale from an hour before the first one. Twenty numbers are drawn from 80, and you win by spot count up to the $100,000 per-draw maximum.
See the complete WCLC Keno prize tables for every spot count, the exact odds, and the $100,000 prize limit.
Beyond the lottery, many Alberta casinos offer video keno machines, where you play against a paytable on the machine rather than a shared lottery draw. You will find them at venues such as River Cree Resort & Casino and Casino Edmonton in the Edmonton area, and Grey Eagle Resort & Casino and Deerfoot Inn & Casino in the Calgary area. Casino keno paytables differ from the WCLC lottery game, so check the machine before you play.
The game itself is identical in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, because WCLC runs one draw for all three. What changes across the Prairie provinces is the clock the draws run on, who regulates and profits from gaming, and how you can play online. Alberta differs from its neighbors on all three.
Alberta is the only one of the three WCLC provinces on Mountain Time, so the draw window sits an hour earlier on the clock than in Saskatchewan or Manitoba: 4:30 am to 2:30 am MT against 5:30 am to 3:30 am Central. It is the same sequence of draws, just labeled with a different local time. If you are comparing a ticket bought in Lloydminster against one bought in Saskatoon, the Lloydminster clock is the Alberta one.
Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis regulates gaming in the province, and it does so under a model no other province uses: Alberta is the only place in Canada where charitable organizations are licensed to conduct and manage casino events themselves. Volunteer groups work the casino floor and then share the proceeds by region and quarter. In 2024-25 AGLC supported more than 23,000 charitable licences, raising $422.8 million through charitable gaming, with 67.6% of that coming from casino events. Buying a keno ticket feeds a different pot than the casino side does, but the charitable model is the backdrop to gaming everywhere in the province.
Alberta sets a single threshold of 18 for everything: lottery tickets, casino floors and online play alike. That is worth knowing if you cross into Saskatchewan, where the lottery age is 18 but the casino age is 19.
Alberta has moved further and faster on online gambling than either of its WCLC neighbors. Play Alberta, AGLC's own site, launched in October 2020. Then on 13 July 2026 Alberta opened a regulated market to private operators under the iGaming Alberta Act, becoming the second province after Ontario to do so, with 22 operator sites live on day one, the Alberta iGaming Corporation as market operator and AGLC as regulator. None of that changes how you buy a WCLC Keno ticket: the draw game is still a retail product bought from a lottery retailer. Play Alberta does list keno-branded instant games, but those are separate instant-win products, not the 5-minute draw covered on this page.
A keno prize is not taxed anywhere in Canada. The Canada Revenue Agency treats lottery winnings as a windfall rather than income, so nothing is withheld at either the federal or the provincial level and there is no equivalent of the 24% the US lotteries take off larger prizes. The part people miss is what happens next: the prize itself is clean, but any income it goes on to earn is not. Interest in a savings account, dividends, rent, and capital gains on anything you buy with it are all taxable in the year they arise.
All payouts below are for a $1 play and scale with your wager, up to the $100,000 per-draw maximum. See the full WCLC Keno guide for every spot count from 1 to 10.
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Payouts and rules are based on WCLC's published Keno game conditions and prize structure and may change. Always confirm current payouts and draw times at wclc.com or with an Alberta lottery retailer.
Alberta runs on Mountain Time, so WCLC Keno draws run from 4:30 am to 2:30 am MT, with a new draw every 5 minutes. Tickets go on sale an hour before the first draw. That is the same draw sequence Saskatchewan and Manitoba see from 5:30 am to 3:30 am Central.
You must be 18. Alberta applies the same minimum age of 18 to lottery tickets, casinos and online play, unlike Saskatchewan, which sets 18 for lottery but 19 for casinos.
No. WCLC Keno is a retail draw game, so you buy it from an Alberta lottery retailer. Play Alberta sells other lottery products online and offers keno-branded instant games, but those instants are a different product with their own rules and are not the 5-minute WCLC draw.
No. The Canada Revenue Agency treats lottery winnings as a windfall rather than income, so a keno prize is not taxed federally or provincially and nothing is withheld. Income you later earn on that money, such as interest or investment gains, is taxable.
Video keno machines are available at Alberta casinos including River Cree Resort and Casino and Casino Edmonton in the Edmonton area, and Grey Eagle Resort and Casino and Deerfoot Inn and Casino around Calgary. Those machines pay against their own paytable and are not connected to the WCLC draw.
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