Lotto Super 7

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Lotto Super 7 is one of Canada's national lottery games, along with Lotto 6/49. Drawn every Friday night, it has become a staple of Canadian lottery players. Jackpots start at a guaranteed $2.5 million, and is carried over if no ticket matches all 7 numbers. The largest jackpot awarded was in May 2002, in which 4 winners shared a $37.8 million jackpot.

1 Organization
2 Prize Structure
3 Purchasing Tickets
4 Super Seven Heroes
5 See also

[edit] Organization

The Lotto Super 7 game is run by the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation which works with various Provincial lottery corporations. The lottery is run by the government, with profit sharing amongst the various retailers who sell tickets. Retailers receive from the lottery a percentage of the winnings for tickets sold from their shop (the money is not taken from the prize award).

[edit] Prize Structure

As the name implies, Lotto Super 7 involves seven numbers being picked from a field from one to forty-seven. The prizes range from a free play up to the jackpot. Prizes are awarded as follows:

Match	Prize	Odds of Winning
7/7	Jackpot (Share of 73% of Pools Fund)	3 in 62,891,499
6/7+	Share of 5% of Pools Fund	3 in 8,984,649
6/7	Share of 5% of Pools Fund	3 in 230,373
5/7	Share of 17% of Pools Fund	3 in 3,840
4/7	$10.00	3 in 181.8
3/7+	$10.00	3 in 196.5
3/7	Free Play	3 in 21.9

Note: The fixed prizes for 3 of 7, 3 of 7+ Bonus and 4 of 7 are payable from the Prize Fund (45% of sales). The remainder is the Pools Fund, from which all other pari-mutuel shares of prizes are paid. The "+" symbol denotes matching the bonus number. The reason that all of the numerators are 3 is because you get three chances of winning on each ticket.

[edit] Purchasing Tickets

Tickets for Super 7 are sold all across Canada in each of the five lottery jurisdictions: British Columbia Lottery Corporation, Western Canada Lottery Corporation, Ontario Lottery and Gaming, Loto-Québec and the Atlantic Lottery Corporation. Tickets can be purchased until the cutoff time of 9:00 p.m. ET on Friday nights. For every $2 spent, three selections of seven numbers will be given. In addition, each jurisdiction has an add-on regional game called Encore (In the Ontario Lottery and Gaming) which can be bought for $1.

In the Western Canada Lottery Corporation, the add on game is called the Extra, and offers players a maximum prize of $250,000.00. The Extra is simply a seven digit number. Players win money by matching numbers from the end (ie. In the number 1234567, matching the 7 would win you $2, matching 67 would win $10, and so on...).