The jackpot was won by one ticket purchased in Mississauga, Ontario. The largest Lotto 6/49 jackpot, was drawn on Octofor a jackpot of $64 million. Largest jackpots īefore the June 2004 increase in ticket prices from $1 to $2, the largest Lotto 6/49 jackpot was $26.4 million, on September 2, 1995. Since May 14, 2019, both games have switched to using a random number generator. Until May 2019, Lotto 6/49 and Lotto Max used a lottery machine to draw winning numbers. These changes prevent the main jackpot from increasing without limit for an arbitrarily long time, or being split between multiple tickets. If the jackpot is not awarded, the jackpot will increase by $2 million on the next drawing, and the probability of a jackpot win will improve. The jackpot begins at $10 million, with a 1 in 30 chance that it will be awarded. However, at least once every 30 draws, a larger jackpot will be randomly awarded to the Gold Ball Draw winner instead. As before, a guaranteed prize of $1 million is awarded during each draw. īeginning with the Septemdraw, the "Gold Ball Draw" replaces what is now the "Classic Draw" as the means in which the main jackpot is awarded. Each purchased line includes one entry into the guaranteed prize draw, identified by a ticket number this number can only be matched exactly, and does not offer secondary prizes for matching partial digits. Since the Septemdraw, a single line of six numbers costs $3. Some drawings (promoted as a "Superdraw") offer multiple secondary raffle prizes. The "guaranteed prize draw", held since the Septemdraw, and known since September 2022 as the "Gold Ball Draw", which is a raffle prize of at least $1 million that is awarded during each drawing.Until the Septemdraw, the top prize of this drawing was the main jackpot, which began at $5 million and increased each time it was not won. Lesser prizes are also awarded if one matches at least two numbers. Should more than one player win the top or second prize, it is split amongst them. A bonus number is also drawn, and if a player's ticket matches five numbers and the bonus number, the player wins the "second prize" which is usually between $100,000 and $500,000. If a ticket matches all six numbers, a fixed prize of CA$5 million is won. The "Classic Draw", in which six numbers are drawn from a set of 49.Winning numbers are drawn by the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation (ILC) every Wednesday and Saturday, executed with a random number generator.Īs of the Septemdraw, the game consists of two components:
Lotto 6/49 led to the gradual phase-out of that type of lottery game in Canada. Previous national games, such as the Olympic Lottery, Loto Canada and Superloto used pre-printed numbers on tickets. Launched on June 12, 1982, Lotto 6/49 was the first nationwide Canadian lottery game to allow players to choose their own numbers. Lotto 6/49 is one of three national lottery games in Canada.
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