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The "Classic Draw", in which six numbers are drawn from a set of 49. If a ticket matches all six numbers, a fixed prize of CA$5 million is won. A bonus number is also drawn, and if a player's ticket matches five numbers and the bonus number, the player wins the "second prize" which is usually between $100,000 and $500,000.
A player wins either by matching enough numbers in any of the three sets against those drawn, or by matching enough numbers across all three sets. The jackpot is won in the "classic" way, by matching all six numbers in one set, rather than the total matched against the 18. Some six-number games actually draw seven numbers; the first six for the ...
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). Draws are held twice a week on Monday and Thursday nights.
The British Columbia Lottery Corporation is a Canadian Crown corporation that manages all legal gambling (AKA gaming) products in British Columbia including lottery tickets, casinos and online gambling. It is based in Kamloops, with a secondary office in Vancouver. It consists of three business units: Lottery, Casino and eGaming.
The numerator equates to the number of ways to select the winning numbers multiplied by the number of ways to select the losing numbers. For a score of n (for example, if 3 choices match three of the 6 balls drawn, then n = 3), ( 6 n ) {\displaystyle {6 \choose n}} describes the odds of selecting n winning numbers from the 6 winning numbers.
Matching Numbers Prize Odds of winning 3 numbers: £2.50: 56.65592 to 1 4 numbers: £25: 1,032.397 to 1 5 numbers: £250: 55,491.33 to 1 5 numbers and bonus ball: £25,000: 2,330,636 to 1 6 numbers: £250,000: 13,983,815 to 1 The overall odds of winning any prize is 52.65514 to 1 per draw. The overall odds of winning any prize is 10.13855 to 1 ...
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The chances of winning a lottery jackpot can vary widely depending on the lottery design, and are determined by several factors, including the count of possible numbers, the count of winning numbers drawn, whether or not order is significant, and whether drawn numbers are returned for the possibility of further drawing.