How likely are you to win an Ontario lottery jackpot in 2024?
Global News
A breakdown of the odds your lottery ticket will be a winner. The OLG says it sold more than $4 billion in tickets during 2023, with over $2 billion in prizes.
As the face of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, Tony Bitonti says he lives in “a world of odds, randomness and chance” every day.
“You never know what’s going to happen,” he told Global News.
One thing Bitonti admits is winning one of the OLG’s many lottery competitions is unlikely, though not impossible.
The likelihood you will win a lottery jackpot in Ontario during 2024 is vanishingly small, as it was in 2023. That reality, however, didn’t stop people from buying $4.3 billion of lottery tickets last year.
“They are astronomical odds for any game,” Bitonti said, before channelling an OLF advertisement campaign that pushed people to explore their wildest fantasies of luxury.
“It is a chance to dream and that’s what people are really doing.”
Data shared with Global News by OLG shows the odds of winning the Lotto Max national jackpot are 1 in 33.2 million, while Lotto 6/49 has odds of 1 in 13.9 million for its classic jackpot.
Those odds don’t change, Bitonti explained, because winning depends on whether or not the numbers you picked are randomly selected. That means the number of people playing doesn’t actually affect the likelihood you’ll win.
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