>DITES-LE À UN AMI >VERSION IMPRIMABLE >ABONNEZ-VOUS À SENTINELLE CNW Attention News Editors: Media Advisory - Ontario shares in big $43.2 million LOTTO 6/49 jackpot SAULT STE. MARIE, ON, Aug. 13 /CNW/ - Three of four tickets that will share equally in the second-largest lottery jackpot in Canadian history were sold in Ontario. Last night's big LOTTO 6/49 jackpot was $43,222,344. Each jackpot-winning share is worth $10,805,586. Two of Ontario's winning tickets were sold in the Greater Toronto area, and a third was sold in Southwestern Ontario. Ontario also has 7 of 13 second-prize winning tickets, with each worth $302,389. Canada's second-largest lottery jackpot had been growing since the jackpot was last won on July 22, 2006. The largest-ever Canadian lottery prize was a LOTTO 6/49 jackpot of $54.29 million from October 26, 2005. The six regular winning numbers for the Saturday, August 12, 2006 LOTTO 6/49 draw are: 3 - 10 - 21 - 23 - 33 - 44 (Bonus number 43). Ontario ticket sales for the draw totaled $28,336,502 million, contributing to total national ticket sales of $70,428,846 million. LOTTO 6/49 is a national lottery game operated and managed in the province by Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG), a provincial agency responsible for province-wide lottery games, commercial and charitable casinos, and the operation and management of slot machine facilities at horse racing tracks. It is a provincial offence, punishable by fines, to sell OLG lottery tickets to anyone under 18 years of age. << THE LOTTO SUPER 7 JACKPOT FOR AUGUST 18 IS $15 MILLION! Know your limit. Play within it! THE ONTARIO PROBLEM GAMBLING HELPLINE 1-888-230-3505. Disponible en français www.OLG.ca >> For further information: OLG PUBLIC AFFAIRS, (416) 324-6541, (705) 946-6716
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Three people in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and one person in Quebec won last week's Lotto 649. They will share the second-largest lottery jackpot in Canadian history as the lucky winners of Saturday's $43.2-million Lotto 649 draw. They will each take home $10.8 million.

"Two of the tickets were purchased in the GTA, and one in southwestern Ontario, despite the free ticket giveaway by the British Columbia lottery corporation to promote the contest", the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation said.

The six regular winning numbers for the Saturday, August 12, 2006 Lotto
649 draw were: 3 - 10 - 21 - 23 - 33 - 44 (Bonus number 43).

Eight Dollarama employees in downtown Toronto also held one of the winning tickets, worth more than $10.8 million. They will take home about $1.35 million each. They range in ages from 22 to 53.

The biggest Lotto win was $54 million in a Lotto 649 draw in October 2005. It was won by 17 oil company workers in Camrose, Alberta. Each took home a cheque for $3 million.