Lotto Max, Lotto 6/49 have huge jackpots up for grabs. Here are your odds

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Over the next two nights, Canadians will have two stabs at becoming multi-millionaires as both Lotto Max and Lotto 6/49 have massive jackpots up for grabs.

On Tuesday night, the Lotto Max grand prize is worth $80 million while there will also be an estimated 29 Maxmillion prizes available, which are $1 million a piece as well.

Just 24 hours later, the Lotto 6/49 Gold Ball Jackpot stands at $40 million. The grand prize draw offers ticket buyers a shot at another $5 million prize.

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The odd of winning the Lotto Max jackpot sit at 1 in 33,294,800, according to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) but it says that Ontarians have claimed nine of the 10 big jackpots in 2024.

Those nine jackpots account for $505 million and OLG says that a winning ticket sold in the Etobicoke area of Toronto in October worth $65 million remains unclaimed.

According to PlayNow, which is B.C.’s lottery corporation, the most commonly drawn numbers since the Lotto Max switched to 50 numbers are 7, 19, 22, 32, 28, 32,36 and 46.

That is a far cry from the numbers that people are selecting as the most common numbers played are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 which was selected by an average of 45,057 for each draw over the last year.

Second most common is 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42 and 49 which has seen on average selections followed by 2, 7, 19, 24, 28, 30 and 39 which was selected by an average of 14,366 per draw.

Those numbers come courtesy of the OLG website with OLG spokesperson making an interesting point about the take-home prize.

“The interesting thing about these combinations is … at any time there are about 45,000 people who play the combo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 … so if that combination is drawn you may be splitting the jackpot with