$50-million lottery ticket bought in Manitoba

Published Saturday November 7th, 2009

TORONTO - There is one winning ticket for the $50-million jackpot prize in Friday's Lotto Max draw - and it was sold somewhere in Manitoba.

The ticket holder has one year to come forward to claim their prize, which is just $4.3-million shy of the biggest lottery prize ever awarded in Canada. That $54.3-million jackpot was won in 2005 by 17 oil and gas workers in Camrose, Alberta in a Lotto 6-49 draw.

Each share was worth $3.2-million.

 

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Now isn't that perculiar, it took all these weeks to get to 50 million and it's won on the first try, congrats to the winners, but something smells with this lottery.
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Justice for all, Moncton on 07/11/09 07:35:33 AM AST
But notice the 10 max million draw numbers,,every set had the same number drawn twice,,would that not make it impossible to get 7 out of 7 numbers or am I missing something here???
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B Brady, Canada on 07/11/09 08:49:06 AM AST
numbers different on different site
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B Brady, Canada on 07/11/09 08:51:36 AM AST
I agree, isn't it fishy how a new lottery goes all those weeks without winning the jackpot, and only had 1 2nd prize winner all those weeks. Then when it gets to the bonus draw it goes to one winner.

I personally think instead of the actual numbers being drawn i think they input a bar code into a computer and it is the computer that causes those numbers to come up. However, I am surprised that the 1 big winner wasn't in quebec, seeing as they win about 65% of the jackpots yet they only hold 24% of the population. ???
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Joe Doucette, Hampton on 07/11/09 05:56:09 PM AST
By gosh, if I won 50 million, I'd still work. Those pancakes don't flip themselves.
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Lorna L., Fredericton on 13/11/09 01:30:38 AM AST
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