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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.
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.
CHF 64.6 million (US$72.8 million) was the largest winner in Switzerland's Swiss Lotto, won on 2 March 2024. [81] £35.1 million (US$49.6 million) was the largest winner on the UK Lotto game in April 2016. €38.4 million (US$49.7 million) was the largest jackpot in the Netherlands draw of the Staatsloterij (State Lottery) in May 2013.
Here they are in order of highest to lowest - one that includes the current jackpot valued at $970 million. Nine-hundred and seventy million dollars.
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.
This "spiel" game (named "Tag", "Encore" or "Extra" depending on the region), adds a 6- or 7-digit number to the ticket with a top prize of $100,000 if all six digits are matched or $250,000 to $1,000,000 depending on the region for a seven-number match ($1,000,000 in Ontario and Quebec; $250,000 in the Western Canada region of Alberta ...
Back then, No. 5 on the list, the Swift meat company, would have seemed a strong candidate to stay in the 500 for 70 years. It was a colossus, bigger than Shell and Chevron combined.
6 of 6 Regular First Prize Jackpot 19.6% (carried over to next draw) 1:1,919,190 5 of 6 + Alternate Alternate First Prize* $15,673.00 4.9% 1:319,865 5 of 6 Second Prize $921.50 9.80% 1:9,407.79 4 of 6 Third Prize $33.50 14.70% 1:228.07 *Alternate 1st Prize available if there were no jackpot winners Overall odds of winning: 1 in 222.644