Someone in northern New Brunswick is holding a $50 million ticket. Nobody knows who yet.
Atlantic Lottery says the only ticket to match all seven numbers in Friday’s Lotto Max draw on Nov. 6 was sold in Restigouche County, N.B. The results don’t name a town, a store or a winner. Details are expected once the ticket is brought in and the claim goes through.
It’s the first Lotto Max jackpot since Oct. 20. That’s when four Calgary friends won Canada’s biggest-ever lottery prize.
The winning numbers
10, 23, 32, 43, 46, 48 and 51. Bonus: 30.
If 51 looks wrong, it isn’t. Lotto Max has used numbers 1 to 52 since April.
Where the ticket was sold
Restigouche County sits at the top of New Brunswick, along the Quebec border and Chaleur Bay. It’s named after the Restigouche River, one of the best-known Atlantic salmon rivers in North America.
It’s a small place. The whole county had about 30,700 people at the 2021 census. Campbellton is the biggest community, with fewer than 7,000 people. Most of the rest of the county lives in towns and villages like Dalhousie, Atholville, Saint-Quentin, Kedgwick, Balmoral and Charlo.
Keep in mind that the location is only where the ticket was sold. The winner could live somewhere else, and it could be a group rather than one person.
What else Friday’s draw paid out
| Prize | Winning selections | Payout each |
|---|---|---|
| 7 of 7 (jackpot) | 1 | $50,000,000 |
| 6 of 7 plus bonus | 0 | Not won ($256,337.70 pool) |
| 6 of 7 | 40 | $6,529.70 |
| Maxmillions (two $1M prizes) | 0 | Not won |
Several $100,000 MaxPlus prizes were also won across the country.
From Calgary’s $90 million to this
The Oct. 20 jackpot was the first one to hit the new $90 million cap, and it rolled over for several draws before someone won it. The winners were announced on Nov. 6, the same day as this draw: Eidelson Elchico, Lovelyn Malvar, Hazeline Ong and Velna Ramirez, four friends from Calgary who each took home $22.5 million.
They’d been friends for five years, and this was the first time they played together. They bought the ticket online. Elchico found out from an email and posted it in the group chat, which was called “Manifesting Millions.” The others had trouble believing it at first.
Our full story is here: Four Calgary friends win Canada’s record $90 million Lotto Max jackpot.
After that win, the jackpot reset and climbed back to $50 million in just over two weeks.
The game is different now
Lotto Max changed with the April 14 draw:
A play costs $6, up from $5
Each play has four sets of numbers instead of three
Numbers go from 1 to 52 instead of 1 to 50
The jackpot cap went from $80 million to $90 million
More $100,000 MaxPlus prizes were added
Your chances of winning any prize went up. Your chances of winning the jackpot went down a little. The odds are now about 1 in 33.4 million per play, compared with about 1 in 33.3 million before.
Elsewhere in the weekend draws
Saturday’s Lotto 6/49 draw on Nov. 7 had no jackpot winner. Four tickets split the second prize of $39,753.90 each, and one of them was sold in Edmonton. The others were in Ontario and Quebec. A ticket sold in Ontario won the $1 million Gold Ball prize.
Checking your ticket
Use the official results for the right game and draw date, or scan the ticket at a lottery retailer. In Alberta, results and claims go through the Western Canada Lottery Corporation. In Atlantic Canada, they go through Atlantic Lottery. Lottery winnings aren’t taxed in Canada.
Lotteries are a game of chance. If playing has stopped feeling like fun, call the Alberta Addiction Helpline at 1-866-332-2322. It’s free, confidential and open 24/7.
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