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Canadian man's $70 million Lotto Max win is "bittersweet" after wife's passing
Winner wants to dedicate winnings in a special way By Kate Northrop It was a bittersweet moment when one Canadian lottery player found out he won a $70 million (US$51.6 million) Lotto Max jackpot, which he is using to honor his late wife. Brian Hoover was experiencing a wide range of emotions when he won a $70 million Lotto Max jackpot. While many players see the lottery as a fun hobby, a weekly routine, or a quick form of entertainment, for Hoover, playing the lottery was more than
Mar 20, 2024, 7:27 am - Lottery News

Three Calgary friends claim $50M lottery prize after 17 years playing together
'I'm happy that the three of us get to share this... I don't know what I would have done with $50 million alone' Three friends who have playing the lottery together for 17 years are now multi-millionaires, thanks to a Canada Lotto 6/49 jackpot win. After a weekend away, Carmen Austria woke up early on Dec. 11, made coffee and checked her lottery tickets a regular part of her morning routine, having played the lottery jointly with friends and former co-workers Gary Perkins and Catherine W
Feb 26, 2024, 8:20 am - Lottery News

$70 million lottery winner originally thought he won $70K
A Calgary man has made history by becoming the first Albertan to win $70 million (US$52.3 million) playing Canada's Lotto Max multi-province lottery game. Mitchel Dyck was the sole winner of the Oct. 21 Lotto Max draw, having matched all seven winning numbers. Dyck said he doesn't typically play the lottery, but said yes when a cashier asked if he wanted to play. He discovered his windfall on Nov. 7, when he asked a cashier at a local store to check his ticket. Dyck was ecstatic when
Nov 26, 2022, 3:57 pm - Lottery News

Canadian man rediscovers forgotten lottery ticket and wins $20 million
Winning ticket sat in his wallet for over a month By Kate Northrop A Canadian man was already celebrating a momentous occasion when he rediscovered a forgotten Lotto Max lottery ticket in his wallet worth $20 million (US$16.15 million). Jerry Knot, of Wasagamack, was in good spirits at his daughter's wedding in Winnipeg, but there was plenty more to celebrate when he learned that the disregarded lottery ticket in his pocket was a $20 million winner. Back in August, Knott bought a Lot
Nov 1, 2021, 9:30 am - Lottery News

Canadian family claims $60 million Lotto Max jackpot
It's the country's largest payout from a ticket bought online By Kate Northrop A man from Winnipeg, Canada could barely comprehend the lifechanging notion that he was the sole winner of the $60 million (US$46.77 million) Lotto Max jackpot from the Jan. 22 drawing and initially shook off the idea. John Chua's wife, Jhoana, woke him up early in the morning the next day to tell him that someone from their town had won the record jackpot, but his first reaction to hearing the news was disap
Feb 4, 2021, 1:34 pm - Lottery News

Canadian siblings split $1 million Lotto 6/49 prize
I thought somebody was playing a joke! By Kate Northrop A brother and sister from Alberta, Canada, were both skeptical when they scanned their lottery ticket and found that it was the winner of a $1 million (US$766,270) Lotto 6/49 prize for the Guaranteed Prize Draw on Nov. 4. Guaranteed Prize Draw is a $1 million bonus raffle drawing that all Lotto 6/49 tickets are automatically entered into each drawing. David and Betty Holst could not believe their luck, so much so that they eac
Nov 18, 2020, 3:12 pm - Lottery News

Canadian player splits jackpot with himself after buying two identical lottery tickets
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 grandmother wins $55 million Lotto Max jackpot
Largest lottery jackpot ever claimed in Northwest Territories By Kate Northrop A grandmother in Canada's Northwest Territories was stunned by her $55 million (US$40 million) Lotto Max win, but managed to make all the right moves in claiming her prize. On May 1st, Laura Tutcho had purchased her lottery tickets, but she was not watching for her numbers to come up. It wasn't until her granddaughter alerted her that someone from Yellowknife had won the lottery when she decided to hop on the
Jun 11, 2020, 6:19 pm - Lottery News

Canadian man wins $60 million after playing the same numbers for 30 years
Includes video report He waited nearly 10 months to claim his lottery winnings because, he said, he felt so overwhelmed by the size of his luck. Bon Truong, of Edmonton, Canada, had been playing the same lottery numbers for decades by the time he netted $60 million last fall, CTV News reported. He woke up the day after the Oct. 26 Lotto Max draw and saw that his ticket had won the jackpot, the Western Canada Lottery Corporation said in a statement. Then Truong paused. He went to a local
Aug 29, 2019, 8:30 am - Lottery News

Canadian man wins $16M, then finishes grocery shopping
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

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