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Lotto 6/49 logo. Lotto 6/49 is one of three national lottery games in Canada. Launched on June 12, 1982, Lotto 6/49 was the first nationwide Canadian lottery game to allow players to choose their own numbers. Previous national games, such as the Olympic Lottery, Loto Canada and Superloto used pre-printed numbers on tickets.
You can buy tickets online for several “draw” lottery games in North Carolina. Those are games in which you pick (or have a computer pick) a series of numbers for your ticket, then winning ...
A six-number lottery game is a form of lottery in which six numbers are drawn from a larger pool (for example, 6 out of 44). Winning the top prize, usually a progressive jackpot , requires a player to match all six regular numbers drawn; the order in which they are drawn is irrelevant.
In a typical 6/49 game, each player chooses six distinct numbers from a range of 1–49. If the six numbers on a ticket match the numbers drawn by the lottery, the ticket holder is a jackpot winner—regardless of the order of the numbers. The probability of this happening is 1 in 13,983,816.
The odds of winning the game’s six-figure prize were 1-in-850,668.
In addition to the pair of seven-figure winning games, more than 16,000 players bought prize-winning Mega Millions tickets in South Carolina prior to Tuesday’s drawing, according to the release.
Most U.S. pick-5 games now have a progressive jackpot, even in games that are drawn daily; in unusual cases, a single ticket has won a cash prize in excess of $1 million cash. A common top prize in non-jackpot pick-5 games is $100,000(In the lists below, games with a jackpot do not have a minimum jackpot listed.).
The minimum age to purchase OLG lottery tickets is 18; however, for patronizing casinos and/or parimutuel facilities in the province, it is 19. Violators who sell OLG lottery tickets to anyone under the age of 18 can face significant fines under the legislation passed in 1997.