Lotto 6/49, also known as Lotto 649, has become the most popular lottery game in North America since its launch in June 1982.
The 6/49 was the first nationwide Canadian lottery game to allow players to choose their own numbers. Previous lottery games such as Lotto Canada and Superlotto (and regional lotteries such as The Provincial and Western Express) used pre-printed numbers on tickets. Lotto 6/49 rendered these forms of lotteries obsolete in Canada.
This traditional lotto game offers great chances to win a cash prize and pays in a single lump sum cash payment.
The draw (which is 6 balls from 49 as name suggests) runs every Wednesday and Saturday with jackpots starting at $3.5 Million and reaching as high as $54 Million. There are over 300,000 winners each week!
Approx 36% of ticket revenue is returned to the Governments leaving 67% in the prize fund - for you to win!
The odds of winning the jackpot (80.5% of the prize fund) are 13,983,816:1
The odds of winning any prize are 32:1
The game's largest jackpot, and a Canadian lottery record, was drawn on October 26, 2005. The single winning ticket, worth $54.3 million, was purchased in Camrose, Alberta by a group of 17 oil and gas plant workers.
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