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The largest Super 7 jackpot, and the largest jackpot in Canadian lottery history at the time, was CA$37.8 million, on May 17, 2002. [3] The prior record for largest Canadian lottery jackpot had been a Lotto 6/49 draw for $26.4 million in 1995, and the Super 7 record was not surpassed until a Lotto 6/49 draw for CA$54.3 million in 2005. [3]
This was the largest Canadian lottery jackpot up to that time, and a significant increase from the previous record of $37.8 million on a Super 7 lottery draw in 2002—rapid sales created by lottery fever across the country pushed this 2005 Lotto 6/49 jackpot far beyond the originally estimated $40 million. [7]
CHF 64.6 million (US$72.8 million) was the largest winner in Switzerland's Swiss Lotto, won on 2 March 2024. [81] £35.1 million (US$49.6 million) was the largest winner on the UK Lotto game in April 2016. €38.4 million (US$49.7 million) was the largest jackpot in the Netherlands draw of the Staatsloterij (State Lottery) in May 2013.
Loto-Québec introduced its first million-dollar lottery, Super Loto, in 1976. In 1982, the pan-Canadian lottery Lotto 6/49 was launched with a C$500,000 jackpot, becoming a national sensation. The corporation diversified further in 1993, collaborating with broadcaster TVA to create the weekly game show La Poule aux œufs d'or .
The Interprovincial Lottery Corporation (ILC) is a Canadian organization that operates lottery games. It is owned jointly by the five provincial lottery commissions. ILC's headquarters are located in Toronto, Ontario. The ILC was established by the provincial lottery organizations in 1976 to operate joint lottery games across Canada.
The "Super Bingo" series of tickets were removed from retail stores after it was announced that a customer made the claim that he could visually tell which tickets were winners. It was the largest recall ever of a lottery ticket in Canada, and were prompted in part from greater media scrutiny regarding ongoing fraud investigations.
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Accompanying the lottery is the betting game, an illegal form of lottery among the people, which uses the results of the jackpot of the legal traditional lottery as the prize-winning results. In Hanoi, the "agent" system of the betting game has developed along with traditional lottery stores and iced tea stalls, operating quite openly. [ 46 ]