Bob and Madeleine Birrell, a retired couple who settled in Lake Erie six years ago, have won a $3.4 million jackpot playing lotto 6/49.  Robert, who used to play using numbers that correspond to significant dates, used the quick pick option to record the win.

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Harry Black, held two of the winning tickets to the $63 million April draw of the 6/49 lotto.  This was no accident since Harry has this unusual habit of buying two lottery tickets of the same number – something the lottery officials are not used to.

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Lottery payouts are huge because you have to buck astronomical odds to win big.  Some unlucky people go through their whole life betting on lottery draws and not winning anything substantial.

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Though his wife told him that buying lottery tickets is just a waste of money, Raymond Lillington of Dingwall, Nova Scotia kept buying tickets for forty years without any majors wins to show for it.

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Raymond Lillington’s wife Gayle always told him that betting on the lottery was a waste of money.   But Raymond of Dingwall, Nova Scotia, continued buying lottery tickets, a habit, he says that has lasted forty years, and never gave him any major winnings.

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Bruce and Monique Willman of Manitoba knew just what they wanted when they found out they set to receive a huge $17 million payout from the lottery:  in Bruce’s words “I just knew that two minutes after I read the winning numbers, I retired.”

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We often hear mostly women say “It pays to listen to your wife.”  And whenever we do, we usually take the advice with a grain of salt; some even ask how much it pays to listen to the wife.

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Someone from Winnipeg bought a ticket that matched the winning combination of 2, 10, 16, 21, 24 and 49, for a jackpot prize of $17,026,623.50.  It is the largest jackpot prize won in Manitoba since Kirby and Marie Fontaine won a $50 million Lotto Max Prize way back in 2009.

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Chad Klepaychuk, could have missed out on a $15.8 lottery jackpot if not for his wife.  He really planned to buy entries for the 6/49 lottery draw on 13 April, but had initially changed his mind. 

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Chad Seguin, who was one of four winners to share a huge $63 million jackpot from the 6/49 game of the Canadian Lottery still cannot believe his luck.

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