Best Lotto 6/49 Lottery in 2023

The ILC has 5 regional subgroups: Atlantic Lottery Corporation, British Columbia Lottery Corporation, Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, Loto-Québec and Western Canada Lottery Corporation. There are a few differences throughout these regions regarding some details of the rules of Lotto 6/49.

On average, the Lotto 6/49 jackpot winner wins around 8.8M$. There is not only one winner per drawing; there is an unlimited number of winners since there are about 8 different ways to win when playing Lotto 6/49.

Introduced on June 12, 1982, Lotto 6/49 is the first national Canadian lottery game that allows the player to choose the digits they want. When it was introduced, the player paid $1 per participation. To increase the jackpot, the participation cost was increased to $2 in 2004, and to $3 in 2013.

Nowadays, there is a minimum amount of money available to win in the jackpot: 5M$. There are 2 drawings every week. The jackpot is not guaranteed to be won at every drawing. If it is not claimed, the sales of the next draw are added to the 5M$ and so on. There is also a 1M$ prize guaranteed to be given out every drawing.

Throughout the years, the biggest jackpot won by a Lotto 6/49 player was in 2015, in an Ontarian city. The jackpot winner got his hand on 64M$, an amount of money that has not been reached again since then. On average, the jackpot is around 8.8M$ when a player claims it.

• Lotto 6/49 is easy to understand. As the name implies it, Lotto 6/49 is a selection of 6 digits between 1 and 49 that makes the player eligible for the jackpot. This is called the regular selection. The digits of the regular selection can be chosen by the player or randomly selected by the lottery computer.

• There is also a selection for the guaranteed lot of 1M$, which is one number of 10 digits that is guaranteed to be on one of the tickets. The number of the guaranteed lot is always chosen randomly by the lottery computer to ensure that there is only one winner every time.

• To win, the player must have two or more digits that match the ones that were randomly drawn for the regular selection, or the exact number of the guaranteed lot.

• Lotto 6/49 is a variable jackpot lottery game. That means that it is possible that the jackpot digits were not given to a player. If it is not won, the money grows until it is won.

• There are two drawings per week, on Wednesdays and on Saturdays. Each time, there are 7 regular selection digits that are drawn. The first 6 numbers are the winning numbers, and the last one is a bonus number. To win the big jackpot, your digits need to match the first 6 digits, but the order does not matter. On average, the jackpot is estimated to be at 8.8M$.

• Every drawing, the guaranteed lot number is also drawn. It is a unique 10-digit number that gives 1 M$ to the player that has the same number on their ticket.

• There are 6 other ways to win smaller lots: 5 digits matching (around $2,000 on average), 4 digits matching (around $80 on average), 3 digits matching ($10) and 2 digits matching (free ticket). The bonus number comes into account for the last 2 ways to win. If a player has 2 digits matching plus the bonus number, they win $5. If they have 5 digits matching plus the bonus number, the player wins around $111,000 on average.

If the player wins less than $600, a physical retailer that owns an ILC computer can give out the money. Players must be careful, because once a ticket is validated by the retailer, only they or the ILC can give out the money. If the retailer does not have enough money, the winner will have to wait up to 6 weeks before receiving their money from the ILC.

If the player wins more than $600, there are 3 options to receive the money. The winner can either send his ticket in the mail, bring it to a claim centre or bring it to a casino. In the mail, it can take up to 6 weeks for the winner to receive the money. If the player won more than $1000, there are some documents that need to be filled out and sent or brought with the winning ticket.

If the ticket was bought online or on one of the apps, and the amount of money won is inferior to $25,000, it will be deposited in the account of the winner. If the amount of money is superior to $25,000, the ILC will directly contact the winner to explain the payment modalities.