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07-03-2024

AN EVEN BIGGER LOTTO MAX COMING SEPTEMBER 2024: Jackpots to grow as high as $80 million

LOTTO MAX, Canada’s biggest lottery game, will soon have lottery players dreaming even bigger. Starting with the September 10, 2024, draw, players will have the chance to play for a jackpot as high as $80 million – an amount no Canadian lottery has ever reached before.

With LOTTO MAX gearing up to increase the main jackpot cap to $80 million, the game will continue to deliver big, exciting jackpots — and players will still have the chance to win MAXMILLIONS prizes when the jackpot reaches and exceeds $50 million.

The first draw allowing for the potentially bigger LOTTO MAX jackpots will be on Tuesday, September 10, 2024.

Quick facts:

  • The main LOTTO MAX jackpot will be able to grow as high as $80 million
  • Two draws a week: Tuesdays and Fridays
  • No change to the cost of play: $5 for three selections of seven numbers
  • $1 million MAXMILLIONS prizes will continue to be offered when the main jackpot reaches and exceeds $50 million
  • Numbers are selected from 1 to 50
  • The odds of winning the main jackpot remain at 1 in 33,294,800 per $5 play
  • The overall odds to win a prize remain at 1 in 7 per $5 play

When LOTTO MAX was introduced in 2009, a lottery game that offered multiple $50 million jackpots a year was unheard of in Canada. Then in 2015, the jackpot cap increased to $60 million, and then to $70 million in 2019, offering players an even bigger jackpot experience.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT MEDIA RELATIONS IN YOUR REGION:

Atlantic Lottery Corporation (ALC)

Greg Weston

[email protected]

506-867-5800 ext. 5569

Loto-Québec

Renaud Dugas

[email protected]

514-499-5151

OLG Media Relations

1-888-946-6716

Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC)

[email protected]

BCLC

[email protected]

604-225-6460

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