LOTTO MAX^TM GAME CONDITIONS

Approved: December 21, 2023

In Effect: January 22, 2024

Date of the first draw governed by these Game Conditions: January 23, 2024
Date of the final draw governed by these Game Conditions: September 6, 2024

Changes to LOTTO MAX: Click here for updated LOTTO MAX Game Conditions as of September 6, 2024.

LOTTO MAX^TM GAME CONDITIONS

Approved: February 27, 2024

In Effect: 10:30pm EST Sep 6, 2024

Date of the first draw governed by these Game Conditions: September 10, 2024

1. RULES AND REGULATIONS

Lotto Max^TM is governed by the Rules and Regulations Respecting Lotteries and Lottery Tickets of Interprovincial Lottery Corporation ("ILC") which are available upon request and WHICH INCLUDE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY.

2. PLAY

Each play is comprised of 3 selections of 7 numbers from 1 to 50, inclusive.

3. ISSUANCE OF TICKETS

To participate, any eligible person must make valid Lotto Max selections (which can be chosen by the eligible person, computer generated, or made through a combination of both), and pay $5 for each play per draw or remit a winning ticket entitling such person to a free play. Once an eligible person has participated, a ticket will be issued showing the draw date(s), the 3 selections for each play, the amount wagered or FREE PLAY in the case of a free play (which is deemed to be a $5 amount wagered), the control number(s) and other relevant information.

4. MAIN DRAW

On each draw date, or as soon as possible thereafter, ILC will cause seven main numbers and one bonus number (being eight different numbers) to be drawn at random from among all numbers from 1 to 50 (the "Main Draw").

5. WINNING SELECTIONS

Winning selections as a result of any Main Draw are determined as follows:

* "other number" means any number which has not been drawn.

6. WINNING TICKETS

Any valid ticket for any Main Draw bearing any winning selection of such draw is a winning ticket and entitles its holder(s) to claim, for each such winning selection, a prize calculated in accordance with Section 7 hereof.

7. PRIZES

After each Main Draw, ILC allocates for the payment of prizes $2.40 for every play recorded on the computer system of any of its Regional Marketing Organizations for that draw (the "Prize Fund") and a “Pools Fund” is determined by deducting from the Prize Fund an amount equal to the total amount payable as prizes on the 4/7, 3/7+ and 3/7 winning selections. The amount deemed payable as a prize on each 3/7 winning selection (free play) is $2.40.

Subject to Sections 8, 9 and 10, prizes arising from the Main Draw are determined as follows:

(1) If there was no winning selection in any one or more of the 7/7, 6/7+, 6/7, 5/7+, 5/7 or 4/7+ categories in the last preceding Main Draw, the 7/7 Pool is increased by the amount of the Pool for each of those said categories which had no winning selection in such last preceding Main Draw, less any amounts used to fund MAXMILLIONS Prizes as outlined in Section 8 (the “Rollover”), which Rollover shall not include any amount which ILC may have undertaken to add to the 7/7 Pool to reach the minimum amount it has set as the amount of the 7/7 Pool of such last preceding Main Draw.

(2) If and when ILC has set a minimum amount for the 7/7 Pool, then the amount of the 7/7 Pool shall be the greater of (a) the aggregate of 87.25% of the Pools Fund and the Rollover, and (b) the amount so set.

(3) "Share of Pool" means, with reference to each category of winning selections in the 7/7, 6/7+, 6/7, 5/7+, 5/7 and 4/7+ categories, an amount calculated by dividing the dollar amount of the Pool, for that category, by the number of winning selections in that category.

(4) Free play tickets are subject to the Game Conditions in effect on the draw date for which the free play ticket is issued.

8. 7/7 POOL CAP AND MAXMILLIONS^TM SERIES AND MAXMILLIONS^TM DRAWS

When the amount of the 7/7 Pool for any given draw would otherwise equal or exceed $50,000,000, the amount of the 7/7 Pool for the Main Draw shall be capped at an amount set by ILC between $50,000,000 and $80,000,000 inclusive (the "7/7 Pool Cap") and ILC will cause, immediately after the Main Draw, at least as many series of seven numbers (being seven different numbers) to be drawn at random from among all numbers from 1 to 50 (each such series of seven numbers is a "MAXMILLIONS^TM Series ") as there are tranches of $1,000,000 in excess of the 7/7 Pool Cap ("MAXMILLIONS^TM Draws").

For the purposes hereof, "tranche" means a portion of the difference between the 7/7 Pool and the 7/7 Pool Cap. Tranches of $1,000,000 may also be referred to as MAXMILLIONS^TM Prizes. When the 7/7 Pool for any given draw would otherwise equal or exceed $50,000,000, ILC may also set a minimum number of MAXMILLIONS Prizes for that draw. Subject to the following, ILC will provide the additional funding required to satisfy the minimum number of MAXMILLIONS Prizes it has set if the amount of the 7/7 Pool in excess of the 7/7 Pool Cap for that draw is insufficient to fund such MAXMILLIONS Prizes (the “ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding”).

If ILC has set a minimum number of MAXMILLIONS Prizes for such draw, the MAXMILLIONS Prizes which are won will be funded by the 7/7 Pool prior to utilizing funding from the ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding.

Subject to Sections 9 and 10, any valid ticket for that draw which bears any MAXMILLIONS Series of such draw is a winning ticket and entitles its holder(s) to claim, for each such MAXMILLIONS Series, a prize in an amount calculated by dividing $1,000,000 by the number of times such MAXMILLIONS Series appears on winning tickets.

If, in such draw, there is no winning ticket bearing a MAXMILLIONS Series, the 7/7 Pool of the next draw will be increased by $1,000,000 for each such MAXMILLIONS Series (the “MAXMILLIONS Rollover”). Only such MAXMILLIONS Prizes funded solely by the amount of the 7/7 Pool in excess of the 7/7 Pool Cap for that draw will be included in the MAXMILLIONS Rollover. The MAXMILLIONS Rollover shall not include any ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding. However, ILC may, at its discretion, take into account, among other considerations, the amount of the MAXMILLIONS Prizes which would have been funded by the ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding if they had been won, when it decides to set a minimum amount of the 7/7 Pool of the next draw.

Unless ILC has set a minimum number of MAXMILLIONS Prizes for any given draw, any excess of the 7/7 Pool for such draw over the 7/7 Pool Cap, less all MAXMILLIONS Prizes, will be added to the 6/7+ Pool for such draw, and, if there is no 6/7+ winning selection in such draw, will be added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw as set forth in note (1) of Section 7.

If ILC has set a minimum number of MAXMILLIONS Prizes for any given draw and none of the MAXMILLIONS Prizes requiring ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding are won, any excess of the 7/7 Pool for such draw over the 7/7 Pool Cap, less the MAXMILLIONS Prizes funded solely by the amount of the 7/7 Pool in excess of the 7/7 Pool Cap for that draw, will be added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw.

If ILC has set a minimum number of MAXMILLIONS Prizes for any given draw and at least one of the MAXMILLIONS Prizes requiring ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding is won, no amount will be added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw and ILC will provide the ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding as required.

For greater certainty and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following examples are offered to illustrate the foregoing:

Example 1: ILC decides to set and cap the 7/7 Pool for the Main Draw at $50,000,000, ILC has set a minimum number of 2 MAXMILLIONS Prizes, the amount of the 7/7 Pool reaches $48,800,000, and there is no winning selection in the 7/7 category of the Main Draw:

• If no MAXMILLIONS Prizes are won, there is no ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding, and $48,800,000 is added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw.
• If 1 MAXMILLIONS Prize is won, $1,000,000 for the MAXMILLIONS Prize will be funded by the 7/7 Pool and $47,800,000 is added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw.
• If 2 MAXMILLIONS Prizes are won, $2,000,000 for the MAXMILLIONS Prizes will be funded by the 7/7 Pool and $46,800,000 is added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw.

Example 2: ILC decides to cap the 7/7 Pool for the Main Draw at $55,000,000, ILC has set a minimum number of 4 MAXMILLIONS Prizes, the amount of the 7/7 Pool reaches $56,100,000 and there is at least one winning selection in the 7/7 category of the Main Draw:

• If no MAXMILLIONS Prizes are won, $1,100,000 is added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw.

• If 1 MAXMILLIONS Prize is won, $1,000,000 for the MAXMILLIONS Prize will be funded by the 7/7 Pool and $100,000 is added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw.
• If 2 MAXMILLIONS Prizes are won, $1,100,000 for the MAXMILLIONS Prizes will be funded by the 7/7 Pool and the ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding will be $900,000.
• If 3 MAXMILLIONS Prizes are won, $1,100,000 for the MAXMILLIONS Prizes will be funded by the 7/7 Pool and the ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding will be $1,900,000.
• If 4 MAXMILLIONS Prizes are won, $1,100,000 for the MAXMILLIONS Prizes will be funded by the 7/7 Pool and the ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding will be $2,900,000.

Example 3: ILC decides to cap the 7/7 Pool for the Main Draw at $80,000,000, ILC has not set a minimum number of MAXMILLIONS Prizes, and the amount of the 7/7 Pool reaches $95,200,000. 15 MAXMILLIONS Prizes will be drawn and:

• Any MAXMILLIONS Prizes not won will be added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw.
• $200,000 is added to the 6/7+ Pool of the Main Draw – if the 6/7+ Pool is not won, the $200,000 will be added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw.

9. PRIZE CALCULATION

For the 7/7, 6/7+, 6/7, 5/7+, 5/7 and 4/7+ categories and the MAXMILLIONS Prizes, the amount of each prize is calculated by dividing the dollar amount of that category’s Pool (or $1,000,000 in the case of MAXMILLIONS Prizes) by the number of winning selections in that category provided that:

(A) for 7/7 Prizes and MAXMILLIONS Prizes, cents are increased to the next $0.10 (e.g. $8,075,487.12 is rounded up to $8,075,487.20) and

(B) for 6/7+, 6/7, 5/7+, 5/7 and 4/7+ Prizes, cents under $0.05 are reduced to $0.00 (e.g. $2,726.34 is rounded down to $2,726.30) and cents $0.05 and over are increased to $0.10 (e.g. $2,726.35 is rounded up to $2,726.40).

For the 4/7, 3/7+ and 3/7 categories, the Prizes are fixed as set out in Section 7.

10. PRIZE CLAIMS

Prizes must be claimed within one year following the draw date.

11. ODDS OF WINNING

The approximate odds of winning in the Main Draw are as follows: 

The approximate odds of winning in any MAXMILLIONS Draw are the same as the odds of winning 7/7 in the Main Draw.