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Lotto 6/49 Guide: Canada's Longest-Running National Draw
2026-06-20 · 8 min read
Format, prize structure, the Gold Ball draw, and how four decades of published results make 6/49 the best Canadian data set for study.
Format
Six numbers plus a bonus are drawn from 1 to 49, every Wednesday and Saturday. Each selection costs $3 and includes both the Classic Draw and the Gold Ball Draw.
Prize tiers
- 6/6: 1 in 13,983,816
- 5/6 plus bonus: 1 in 2,330,636
- 5/6: 1 in 55,492
- 4/6: 1 in 1,033
- 3/6: 1 in 56.7
Why 6/49 is the best data set in Canada
The game has run since 1982 with a consistent format, producing thousands of published draws. That is a large enough sample that frequency distributions converge close to uniform — which is exactly what you would expect from a fair draw, and what makes it a useful teaching data set.
Shorter-running or recently reformatted games do not offer the same depth, and mixing pre- and post-format data produces misleading frequency tables.
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