TORONTO When an Ontario man won $10,000 playing encore in Lotto 649 he could hardly wait to tell his wife. We were pretty excited because it meant a lot for us because we are retired, Barrie man Bob Deere told CTV News Toronto. Deere bought a Lotto 649 ticket on Sept. 30 and his numbers came up for encore, which gave him the $10,000 prize. Because of COVID-19, Deere was told to fill out a lottery prize declaration form and send it in, but after more than two months of waiting he still hadn t received his money. We waited and we waited. I called about six times and every time I got the same answer from them. It was very, very frustrating and I couldn t do anything about it because they were in the driver s seat, Deere said.