Mississauga ticket wins $38-million Lotto 6/49 Gold Ball jackpot in Wednesday draw
A Lotto 6/49 ticket purchased in Mississauga won the $38-million Gold Ball jackpot in the Wednesday, Nov. 11 draw, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) said in a news release on Thursday morning.
OLG has not released the identity of the ticket holder, and outlets covering the win report that the winner will be named once they come forward to claim the prize. It remains unclear from the reports whether the ticket belongs to one person or to a group. Citynews described the result as one of the largest lottery wins in Ontario this year.
What OLG confirmed about the winning ticket
OLG confirmed that the winning Gold Ball ticket was bought in Mississauga, west of Toronto, for the Wednesday night draw. “Dreams are about to come true as a $38-million Lotto 6-49 Gold Ball jackpot was won in last night’s draw,” the corporation said in its Thursday morning release, as quoted by Mississauga.com.
The retailer that sold the ticket was not named in the coverage reviewed by the desk.
No winner has been presented yet. Prizes of this size are paid only after OLG validates the ticket, a step Citynews noted applies before any award becomes official. Reports from Citynews, Global News and CTV News all attribute the location and the amount to OLG and carry no further detail about the buyer, so this page does not either.
The same draw offered the Classic jackpot at its usual fixed $5 million, according to Insauga, while Citynews reported that the Nov. 11 draw also produced other significant wins across the province.
How the Gold Ball jackpot resets after a win
The Gold Ball draw is a separate draw that guarantees a winner every time. Under the format described by the Western Canada Lottery Corporation, the selected ticket wins either $1 million, if a white ball is drawn, or the full Gold Ball jackpot, if the gold ball comes out.
The jackpot starts at $10 million and grows with each white-ball result, which is how this one climbed to $38 million before the gold ball was drawn on Wednesday. On the first draw of a sequence, the selection is made from 30 possible outcomes, made up of 29 white balls and one gold ball.
Because the jackpot was won, the top prize has reset to $10 million for the next draw on Saturday, Nov. 14, Mississauga.com reported.
Mississauga has seen a larger win before. The largest Lotto 6/49 jackpot on record with the Western Canada Lottery Corporation was $64 million, from the Oct. 17, 2015 draw, and that prize was also won by a single ticket sold in the city. Lotto 6/49 draws are held every Wednesday and Saturday.
