Last Updated On 17 March 2025, 1:45 AM EDT (Toronto Time)
Lotto Max is a Canadian lottery game popular for its big wins. Started in 2009 and organized by the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation, the Lotto Max is so successful that it replaced Lotto Super 7. This replacement is no surprise, according to Don Pister, manager of public relations for OLG, who said in a report that “the lottery’s design has been in works for several years.”
Lotto Max is one of three of Canada’s national lottery games, generating billions in ticket sales yearly. With two draws made every week on Tuesdays and Fridays, the largest possible Lotto Max jackpot that can be won in the lottery is $80 million. But aside from this big jackpot, players can also win the MAXMILLIONS draws, Match 6, Match 5, and so on.
Recently in the news, the OLG announcement of the winner of the first Canadian lottery has been making the rounds. What was the first winning ticket, how much was it worth, and who was in second place? Join us in this post as we unveil everything we know so far.
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Winner of a $60M Lotto Max jackpot ticket sold in Toronto
Winning Lotto Max lottery is not something that happens all that frequently. However, since the beginning of the year 2025, the Lottery Max lottery jackpot has been won twice. According to OLG, the tickets were sold in the province of Ontario in Toronto’s west end.
The first Lotto Max jackpot for 2025 was on Tuesday night’s draw on the 21st of January, 2025, where the winner walked home with a whopping CAD 60 million. While the winner of the second prize got $109,857.80. In a news release from globalnews.ca, “the Lotto Max jackpot ticket featuring winning numbers 13, 15, 35, 36, 42, and 47 was sold to a lucky winner in Etobicoke”. This is the first big Lotto Max jackpot win for 2025.
But more recently, the $25 million Lotto Max jackpot won on Friday night’s draw on the 31st of January, 2025. However, this draw does not have a second-place draw. The winning numbers for Friday’s night lottery were 2, 8, 9, 16, 27, 37, and 38.
Everyone playing the Lotto Max draw does so hoping to win the million-dollar jackpot, but only a few actually get to win it. You have a better chance winning at casino games like progressive jackpot than at the lottery.
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What do we know about such big wins?
According to Jeffrey Derevensky, a retired professor who studied and wrote about problem gambling at the McGill University, said “The bigger the jackpot, the more likely people are to play the lottery.” We do know that the Lotto Max lottery promises such big wins, but only a few gets to win the jackpot. In the 21st January 2025 Lotto Max draw, only one player won the cash prize, but the identity of the winner of the 60m first Ontario lottery and gaming jackpot is yet to be revealed. But we know that this isn’t the first time the lottery has seen an impressive Lotto Max ticket win.
In 2024, OLG said there were a total of 11 jackpot wins, totaling CAD 525 million in jackpot prizing. It’s quite something, but here’s a breakdown of what 2024 looked like:
- Eight consecutive Lotto Max Jackpots wins in Ontario during mid-October
- Two winners of the CAD 80 million Lotto Max jackpot: a couple from Owen Sounds in Ontario got the CAD 40 million Lotto Max jackpot, while the other ticket was sold to a retired gym teacher from Quebec.
- Another Ontario couple won CAD 70 million in August 2024 following the birth of their baby.
- In the May 2024 draw, a woman from Ottawa took home a whopping CAD 70 million prize after noticing her left hand was itchy.
Overall, since 2009, winners and beneficiaries in Ontario have won over CAD 8.9 billion, including 111 jackpot wins and 937 maxmillions prizes.
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