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Canadian player splits jackpot with himself after buying two identical lottery ticketsNews Story
An unintentional purchase turned out to be a happy accident By Kate Northrop A player from Alberta, Canada, accidentally purchased two Lotto 6/49 tickets that had the same exact numbers, but he's not sweating the trivial amount he spent on that extra ticket. Instead, he won the entire $5 million (US$3.8 million) jackpot, split into an identical pair of $2.5 million (US$1.9 million) jackpots. Andrew Burke of Calmar mistakenly bought two matching lottery tickets for the Wed., Sept. 16 Lot
Oct 21, 2020, 6:08 pm - Lottery News

Canadian couple claim second-largest jackpot in NL provinceNews Story
Winners purposefully waited to check tickets to avoid disappointment, but were met with a much bigger shock By Kate Northrop A couple from Newfoundland and Labrador now possess the bragging rights to claiming the second-largest jackpot in the province's history $18.2 million (US$13.6 million). After the Atlantic Lottery announced that the Sat. Sept. 12 Lotto 6/49 jackpot had been won by a lone ticket sold in St. John's, players were kept on their toes while rumors about who won the jack
Sep 28, 2020, 2:51 pm - Lottery News

Canada lotteries changing biggest games to computerized drawingsNews Story
Random number generators will be used for Lotto Max and Lotto 649 after May 14 Starting mid-May, players of Canada's two largest multi-province lottery games will no longer be able to rely on real lottery ball drawings to choose the winning numbers. Instead, the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation will retire the lottery balls that generate the winning numbers for Lotto Max and Lotto 649 on May 14, moving to a computer program called a random number generator. They're part of our histo
Apr 24, 2019, 6:19 pm - Lottery News

Canadian businessman named $33 million lottery winnerNews Story
He was checking his lottery ticket before a Sunday drive up the Bruce Peninsula to look at cottages he and his family dreamed of buying. It was a good time to check the ticket. Jason Goreski, a 48-year-old father of two from Owen Sound, Ontario, won just shy of $33.4 million (US$25.2 million) in the Feb 2 Lotto 6/49 draw, Ontario's gaming operator announced Monday. When I noticed I had matched four numbers in a row, I started to shake, he said in a news release from the Ontario Lottery
Feb 13, 2019, 8:54 am - Lottery News

Canadian man wins $16M, then finishes grocery shoppingNews Story
Calgarian Alfonso Buonomo's first reaction to learning he'd won a Lotto 6/49 windfall was to go grocery shopping. Now, he can go shopping with $16.3 million, the biggest Lotto 6/49 win in the city in six years. When Buonomo checked his $4 lottery ticket for the Jan. 2 draw, at the Creekside Co-op gas bar at 11994 Symons Valley Rd. N.W. where he purchased it, he had a hard time believing he was a millionaire many times over. I actually thought the prize amount was a bar code number when
Feb 8, 2019, 9:38 am - Lottery News

After fire destroys family home, couple wins $1M lottery prizeNews Story
A man who has spent the last two years rebuilding his fire-ravaged home can finally finish the project after winning a $1 million lottery jackpot. Bill Pendergast has spent the last two years rebuilding his home, which burnt down when a wildfire raged through Fort McMurray, Alberta. Now, he is $1 million richer and able to finish restoring his family home thanks to the Atlantic Lottery. Pendergast, 50, bought the $3 Lotto 6/49 ticket earlier this month when he stopped at the local convenie
Feb 15, 2018, 10:01 am - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery awards man half of $6.1M lottery prize with remainder in legal limboNews Story
An Ontario man who parted ways with his live-in girlfriend after winning the lottery has been awarded half of the disputed $6.1 million Lotto 6/49 prize. But the rest of the cash bonanza remains in legal limbo. Maurice Thibeault arrived at the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.'s Toronto prize centre holding one of the two winning tickets in the Sept. 20 jackpot, worth $12.2 million. But before the Chatham resident could collect the money, his former girlfriend Denise Robertson, 46, obtai
Dec 5, 2017, 7:47 am - Lottery News

Canada couple wins lottery for third timeNews Story
Winning ticket was a free play won in earlier drawing By Todd Northrop An Edmonton, Alberta, couple is walking away with a cool $8.1 million after striking it big in February in Canada's national Lotto 6/49 game. Barbara Fink didn't know how much she had won when she checked her numbers online the night of the Feb. 22 lottery draw, but she wasted no time calling her husband, Douglas, who was working out of town at the time. I knew we had all the numbers, but I didn't know how many w
Apr 7, 2017, 10:21 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner pranks kids by letting them 'find out about it on the news'News Story
A Canadian man who won a CA$9.7 million (US$7.4 million) lottery jackpot said he wants his children to find out about it on the news. Daniel Schulli of Abbotsford, British Columbia, said he's been in a state of shock and elation since winning the top price in the Sept. 17 Lotto 6/49 draw. This is just so surreal, Schulli said. My wife and I have been walking around the house giggling because we just can't believe it! Schulli said he already has his first purchase planned. A brand
Oct 5, 2016, 4:11 pm - Lottery News

Ontario woman claims record $64M Canadian lottery jackpotNews Story
A Mississauga, Ontario, woman has won what is being called the largest jackpot ever in the history of Canadian lottery. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. says Zhe Wang held the single winning ticket for its $64 million jackpot. According to the OLG, she has chosen not to share any details of the win or what she plans to do with the money. The OLG says the ticket was from the Oct. 17 Lotto 6/49 draw and was bought at a Petro Canada in Mississauga. The winning numbers from that drawing
Mar 15, 2016, 8:38 am - Lottery News