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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. Lotto 6/49 led to the gradual phase-out of that type of lottery game in Canada.
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. Functionally, these games are similar to five-number games, except, because of the need to match a sixth number, the top-prize odds are longer.
The Grand Number is drawn from a separate pool and may be equal to one of the five main numbers. [3] It is matched separately for determining prize payouts. A single board costs $3, and the game's top prize is an annuity of $1,000 a day (with a $7,000,000 lump sum option).
On October 25, 2006, the CBC program The Fifth Estate aired an investigative report on lottery retailers winning major prizes, focusing on the ordeal of 82-year-old Bob Edmonds. His $250,000 winning Encore ticket was stolen by a convenience store clerk when he went to have his ticket checked in 2001.
The British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) was incorporated under the provincial Company Act, subsequently replaced by the Business Corporations Act.. While incorporated under the same law as other BC corporate entities, it is without share capital and has only one shareholder: the province itself.
The odds of winning can also be reduced by increasing the group from which numbers are drawn. In the SuperEnalotto of Italy, players must match 6 numbers out of 90. [52] The chance of winning the jackpot is 1 in 622,614,630. [53] Most lotteries give lesser prizes for matching just some of the winning numbers, with a lesser prize for fewer matches.
The year 649 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 105 Ab urbe condita.The denomination 649 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
For a score of n (for example, if 3 choices match three of the 6 balls drawn, then n = 3), () describes the odds of selecting n winning numbers from the 6 winning numbers. This means that there are 6 - n losing numbers, which are chosen from the 43 losing numbers in () ways. The total number of combinations giving that result is, as stated ...