Lotto 6/49 lottery ticket worth $5 million sold in Kitchener

A winning Lotto 6/49 lottery ticket worth $5 million was sold in Kitchener for Wednesday’s drawing. 

The winning ticket was sold at a local convenience store in Kitchener. The ticket distributor will get a bonus of $50,000 for selling the winning scratch-Off ticket. 

The next Lotto 6/49 draw is on Feb. 4 with the Gold Ball Draw offering a $24 million jackpot and the Classic Draw offering a fixed $5 million jackpot for every draw.

Lotto 6/49 is one of three national lottery games in Canada. Lotto 6/49 led to the gradual phase-out of that type of lottery game in Canada.

Winning numbers are drawn by the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation (ILC) every Wednesday and Saturday, executed with a random number generator.