Advisory: Timing for LOTTO MAX winning numbers, prize validations

$105 Million in Top-Prize money is worth the wait.

TORONTO, June 25 /CNW/ - LOTTO MAX - Canada's biggest-ever lottery draw will be held overnight as the new LOTTO MAX game offers an unprecedented number of big prizes, including a main jackpot of $50 million plus an estimated 55 individual MAXMILLIONS prizes of $1 million each. As each top prize requires its own draw, winning numbers and prize-winning ticket validations may be not be immediately available when OLG's lottery terminal network opens for business at 6:00 am Saturday morning. Prize validations for all other games - and for LOTTO MAX prizes won on previous draws, will be available as usual, and the results from tonight's LOTTO MAX draws will be published as quickly as possible.

Customers are being reminded of the additional time required to complete all the draws and publish the results through messages on the Winning Numbers section of our website at OLG.ca and on our winning numbers phone lines (OLG WIN LINE: 1-866-891-8946 or 1-416-870-8946.)

OLG is a provincial agency responsible for province-wide lottery games and gaming facilities. Since 1975, OLG lotteries, casinos, slots, and resort casinos have generated more than $32 billion for the benefit of the Province of Ontario. Gaming proceeds support Ontario's hospitals, amateur sport, recreational and cultural activities, communities, provincial priority programs such as health care and education, and local and provincial charities and non-profit organizations through the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

    
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For further information: Media Contact: OLG Media Relations, 888-946-6716, www.OLG.ca