Lotto Max is a Canadian lottery game coordinated by the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation, as one of the country's three national lottery games. Introduced on September 19, 2009, with its first draw occurring on September 25, 2009, the game replaced Lotto Super 7. As of May 2019, Lotto Max drawings are held every Tuesday and Friday.
The launch of Lotto Max was successful, attracting higher revenue in its first 10 months of operation than Super 7 did in its best year of sales. A representative of OLG attributed Lotto Max's popularity to the size of its total prize pools (which approach the larger jackpots seen in U.S. lotteries), and the perception of consumers that the MaxMillions system increased the probability that they could win a major prize.[1][2] In May 2019, the game introduced major changes, including adding a second weekly drawing on Tuesdays, a maximum jackpot of $70 million, a 7/50 number matrix, and two additional prize tiers.
As of September 2024, the largest possible Lotto Max jackpot is $80 million, and the first $75 million draw was held on Friday September 13, 2024.[3]
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- ^ "LOTTO MAX JACKPOT ROLLS TO $75 MILLION FOR THE FIRST TIME IN CANADIAN LOTTERY HISTORY". OLGC. Retrieved 11 September 2024.