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The Ontario Lottery Corporation was created in February 1975 under the Ontario Lottery Corporation Act, 1975 (repealed in 1999 and replaced with the current Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation Act). [6] Wintario was the first lottery game offered by the fledgling OLC on April 3, 1975, and the first drawing took place on May 15, 1975.
These games are administered by the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation, which is a consortium of the five regional lottery commissions owned by their respective provincial/territorial governments: Atlantic Lottery Corporation (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador), Loto-Québec , Ontario Lottery and ...
The word "keno" has French or Latin roots (Fr. quine "five winning numbers", L. quini "five each"), but by all accounts the game originated in China. Legend has it that Zhang Liang invented the game during the Chu-Han Contention to raise money to defend an ancient city, and its widespread popularity later helped raise funds to build the Great Wall of China.
Wintario draws then contained a 3-digit $10 draw, a 4-digit $100 draw, a 5-digit $1000 draw, four 6-digit draws for $25,000, a 6-digit draw worth $100,000 that could be broken down for subsidiary prizes by matching the last five, four or three digits. A 2-digit Win-fall number for free books of five Wintario tickets was also drawn.
Updated August 10, 2016 at 7:06 PM According to the Britannica Online Encyclopedia , today's Game of the Day, Keno , originated at least two thousands years ago, in far away China.
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At that time, lottery schemes were generally traditional lotteries where numbered tickets were purchased for chances to win large cash prizes in draws. In 1974, the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba formed the Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC) to operate lotteries on their behalf. [ 5 ]
Prizes and options vary. 101 games were drawn for Keno on December 22, 1995 from 12:00 p.m. to 8:25 p.m. which is the least, and 300 games were drawn for Keno from November 24, 2004 to April 29, 2023 from 5:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. On March 31, 2021, 316 games were drawn from 5:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m., the most in a single day in the history of Keno.