LOTTO MAX^TM GAME CONDITIONS

Approved: February 27, 2024

In Effect: 10:30pm EST September 6, 2024

Date of the first draw governed by these Game Conditions: September 10, 2024

Date of the final draw governed by these Game Conditions: April 10, 2026

Changes to LOTTO MAX: Click here for updated LOTTO MAX Game Conditions as of April 10, 2026.

1. RULES AND REGULATIONS

Lotto Max^TM is governed by the Rules and Regulations Respecting Lotteries and Lottery Tickets of Interprovincial Lottery Corporation ("ILC") which are available upon request and WHICH INCLUDE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY.

2. PLAY

Each play is comprised of 3 selections of 7 numbers from 1 to 50, inclusive.

3. ISSUANCE OF TICKETS

To participate, any eligible person must make valid Lotto Max selections (which can be chosen by the eligible person, computer generated, or made through a combination of both), and pay $5 for each play per draw or remit a winning ticket entitling such person to a free play. Once an eligible person has participated, a ticket will be issued showing the draw date(s), the 3 selections for each play, the amount wagered or FREE PLAY in the case of a free play (which is deemed to be a $5 amount wagered), the control number(s) and other relevant information.

4. MAIN DRAW

On each draw date, or as soon as possible thereafter, ILC will cause seven main numbers and one bonus number (being eight different numbers) to be drawn at random from among all numbers from 1 to 50 (the "Main Draw").

5. WINNING SELECTIONS

Winning selections as a result of any Main Draw are determined as follows:

* "other number" means any number which has not been drawn.

6. WINNING TICKETS

Any valid ticket for any Main Draw bearing any winning selection of such draw is a winning ticket and entitles its holder(s) to claim, for each such winning selection, a prize calculated in accordance with Section 7 hereof.

7. PRIZES

After each Main Draw, ILC allocates for the payment of prizes $2.40 for every play recorded on the computer system of any of its Regional Marketing Organizations for that draw (the "Prize Fund") and a “Pools Fund” is determined by deducting from the Prize Fund an amount equal to the total amount payable as prizes on the 4/7, 3/7+ and 3/7 winning selections. The amount deemed payable as a prize on each 3/7 winning selection (free play) is $2.40.

Subject to Sections 8, 9 and 10, prizes arising from the Main Draw are determined as follows:

(1) If there was no winning selection in any one or more of the 7/7, 6/7+, 6/7, 5/7+, 5/7 or 4/7+ categories in the last preceding Main Draw, the 7/7 Pool is increased by the amount of the Pool for each of those said categories which had no winning selection in such last preceding Main Draw, less any amounts used to fund MAXMILLIONS Prizes as outlined in Section 8 (the “Rollover”), which Rollover shall not include any amount which ILC may have undertaken to add to the 7/7 Pool to reach the minimum amount it has set as the amount of the 7/7 Pool of such last preceding Main Draw.

(2) If and when ILC has set a minimum amount for the 7/7 Pool, then the amount of the 7/7 Pool shall be the greater of (a) the aggregate of 87.25% of the Pools Fund and the Rollover, and (b) the amount so set.

(3) "Share of Pool" means, with reference to each category of winning selections in the 7/7, 6/7+, 6/7, 5/7+, 5/7 and 4/7+ categories, an amount calculated by dividing the dollar amount of the Pool, for that category, by the number of winning selections in that category.

(4) Free play tickets are subject to the Game Conditions in effect on the draw date for which the free play ticket is issued.

8. 7/7 POOL CAP AND MAXMILLIONS^TM SERIES AND MAXMILLIONS^TM DRAWS

When the amount of the 7/7 Pool for any given draw would otherwise equal or exceed $50,000,000, the amount of the 7/7 Pool for the Main Draw shall be capped at an amount set by ILC between $50,000,000 and $80,000,000 inclusive (the "7/7 Pool Cap") and ILC will cause, immediately after the Main Draw, at least as many series of seven numbers (being seven different numbers) to be drawn at random from among all numbers from 1 to 50 (each such series of seven numbers is a "MAXMILLIONS^TM Series ") as there are tranches of $1,000,000 in excess of the 7/7 Pool Cap ("MAXMILLIONS^TM Draws").

For the purposes hereof, "tranche" means a portion of the difference between the 7/7 Pool and the 7/7 Pool Cap. Tranches of $1,000,000 may also be referred to as MAXMILLIONS^TM Prizes. When the 7/7 Pool for any given draw would otherwise equal or exceed $50,000,000, ILC may also set a minimum number of MAXMILLIONS Prizes for that draw. Subject to the following, ILC will provide the additional funding required to satisfy the minimum number of MAXMILLIONS Prizes it has set if the amount of the 7/7 Pool in excess of the 7/7 Pool Cap for that draw is insufficient to fund such MAXMILLIONS Prizes (the “ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding”).

If ILC has set a minimum number of MAXMILLIONS Prizes for such draw, the MAXMILLIONS Prizes which are won will be funded by the 7/7 Pool prior to utilizing funding from the ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding.

Subject to Sections 9 and 10, any valid ticket for that draw which bears any MAXMILLIONS Series of such draw is a winning ticket and entitles its holder(s) to claim, for each such MAXMILLIONS Series, a prize in an amount calculated by dividing $1,000,000 by the number of times such MAXMILLIONS Series appears on winning tickets.

If, in such draw, there is no winning ticket bearing a MAXMILLIONS Series, the 7/7 Pool of the next draw will be increased by $1,000,000 for each such MAXMILLIONS Series (the “MAXMILLIONS Rollover”). Only such MAXMILLIONS Prizes funded solely by the amount of the 7/7 Pool in excess of the 7/7 Pool Cap for that draw will be included in the MAXMILLIONS Rollover. The MAXMILLIONS Rollover shall not include any ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding. However, ILC may, at its discretion, take into account, among other considerations, the amount of the MAXMILLIONS Prizes which would have been funded by the ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding if they had been won, when it decides to set a minimum amount of the 7/7 Pool of the next draw.

Unless ILC has set a minimum number of MAXMILLIONS Prizes for any given draw, any excess of the 7/7 Pool for such draw over the 7/7 Pool Cap, less all MAXMILLIONS Prizes, will be added to the 6/7+ Pool for such draw, and, if there is no 6/7+ winning selection in such draw, will be added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw as set forth in note (1) of Section 7.

If ILC has set a minimum number of MAXMILLIONS Prizes for any given draw and none of the MAXMILLIONS Prizes requiring ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding are won, any excess of the 7/7 Pool for such draw over the 7/7 Pool Cap, less the MAXMILLIONS Prizes funded solely by the amount of the 7/7 Pool in excess of the 7/7 Pool Cap for that draw, will be added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw.

If ILC has set a minimum number of MAXMILLIONS Prizes for any given draw and at least one of the MAXMILLIONS Prizes requiring ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding is won, no amount will be added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw and ILC will provide the ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding as required.

For greater certainty and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following examples are offered to illustrate the foregoing:

Example 1: ILC decides to set and cap the 7/7 Pool for the Main Draw at $50,000,000, ILC has set a minimum number of 2 MAXMILLIONS Prizes, the amount of the 7/7 Pool reaches $48,800,000, and there is no winning selection in the 7/7 category of the Main Draw:

• If no MAXMILLIONS Prizes are won, there is no ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding, and $48,800,000 is added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw.
• If 1 MAXMILLIONS Prize is won, $1,000,000 for the MAXMILLIONS Prize will be funded by the 7/7 Pool and $47,800,000 is added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw.
• If 2 MAXMILLIONS Prizes are won, $2,000,000 for the MAXMILLIONS Prizes will be funded by the 7/7 Pool and $46,800,000 is added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw.

Example 2: ILC decides to cap the 7/7 Pool for the Main Draw at $55,000,000, ILC has set a minimum number of 4 MAXMILLIONS Prizes, the amount of the 7/7 Pool reaches $56,100,000 and there is at least one winning selection in the 7/7 category of the Main Draw:

• If no MAXMILLIONS Prizes are won, $1,100,000 is added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw.

• If 1 MAXMILLIONS Prize is won, $1,000,000 for the MAXMILLIONS Prize will be funded by the 7/7 Pool and $100,000 is added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw.
• If 2 MAXMILLIONS Prizes are won, $1,100,000 for the MAXMILLIONS Prizes will be funded by the 7/7 Pool and the ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding will be $900,000.
• If 3 MAXMILLIONS Prizes are won, $1,100,000 for the MAXMILLIONS Prizes will be funded by the 7/7 Pool and the ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding will be $1,900,000.
• If 4 MAXMILLIONS Prizes are won, $1,100,000 for the MAXMILLIONS Prizes will be funded by the 7/7 Pool and the ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding will be $2,900,000.

Example 3: ILC decides to cap the 7/7 Pool for the Main Draw at $80,000,000, ILC has not set a minimum number of MAXMILLIONS Prizes, and the amount of the 7/7 Pool reaches $95,200,000. 15 MAXMILLIONS Prizes will be drawn and:

• Any MAXMILLIONS Prizes not won will be added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw.
• $200,000 is added to the 6/7+ Pool of the Main Draw – if the 6/7+ Pool is not won, the $200,000 will be added to the 7/7 Pool of the next draw.

9. PRIZE CALCULATION

For the 7/7, 6/7+, 6/7, 5/7+, 5/7 and 4/7+ categories and the MAXMILLIONS Prizes, the amount of each prize is calculated by dividing the dollar amount of that category’s Pool (or $1,000,000 in the case of MAXMILLIONS Prizes) by the number of winning selections in that category provided that:

(A) for 7/7 Prizes and MAXMILLIONS Prizes, cents are increased to the next $0.10 (e.g. $8,075,487.12 is rounded up to $8,075,487.20) and

(B) for 6/7+, 6/7, 5/7+, 5/7 and 4/7+ Prizes, cents under $0.05 are reduced to $0.00 (e.g. $2,726.34 is rounded down to $2,726.30) and cents $0.05 and over are increased to $0.10 (e.g. $2,726.35 is rounded up to $2,726.40).

For the 4/7, 3/7+ and 3/7 categories, the Prizes are fixed as set out in Section 7.

10. PRIZE CLAIMS

Prizes must be claimed within one year following the draw date.

11. ODDS OF WINNING

The approximate odds of winning in the Main Draw are as follows: 

The approximate odds of winning in any MAXMILLIONS Draw are the same as the odds of winning 7/7 in the Main Draw.

LOTTO MAX^TM GAME CONDITIONS

Approved: September 25, 2025

In Effect: 10:30pm EST April 10, 2026

Date of the first draw governed by these Game Conditions: April 14, 2026

1. RULES AND REGULATIONS

Lotto Max^TM is governed by the Rules and Regulations Respecting Lotteries and Lottery Tickets of Interprovincial Lottery Corporation ("ILC") which are available upon request and WHICH INCLUDE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY.

2. PLAY

Each play is comprised of 4 selections of 7 numbers from 1 to 52, inclusive.

3. ISSUANCE OF TICKETS

To participate, any eligible person must make valid Lotto Max selections (which can be chosen by the eligible person, computer generated, or made through a combination of both, as applicable), and pay $6 for each play per draw or remit a winning ticket entitling such eligible person to a free play. Once an eligible person has participated, a ticket will be issued showing the draw date(s), the 4 selections for each play, the amount wagered or “FREE PLAY” in the case of a free play (which is deemed to be a $6 amount wagered), the control number(s) and other relevant information.

4. MAIN DRAW

On each draw date, or as soon as possible thereafter, ILC will cause seven main numbers and one bonus number (being eight different numbers) to be drawn at random from among all numbers from 1 to 52 (the "Main Draw").

5. WINNING SELECTIONS

Winning selections as a result of any Main Draw are determined as follows:

* "other number" means any number which has not been drawn.

6. WINNING TICKETS

Any valid ticket for any Main Draw bearing any winning selection of such draw is a winning ticket and entitles its holder(s) to claim, for each such winning selection, a prize calculated in accordance with Section 7 hereof.

7. MAIN DRAW PRIZES

The amount of the Main Draw 7/7 winning selection category pool for that draw (the “Main Jackpot”) will be set by ILC at its discretion and be made public before the Main Draw.

After each Main Draw, ILC allocates for the payment of prizes $2.88 for every play recorded on the computer system of any of its Regional Marketing Organizations for that draw to prize funds as follows:

(A)  $1.69 is allocated to the “Draw Fund” to fund the payment of (i) the Main Jackpot prize; (ii) the MAXPLUS Prizes; (iii) the MAXMILLIONS Prizes; and (iv) any additional special draw prizes which ILC may at its discretion offer from time to time.

(B)  $1.19 is allocated to the “Prize Fund”, and a “Pools Fund” is determined by deducting from the Prize Fund an amount equal to the total amount payable as prizes on the 4/7, 3/7+ and 3/7 winning selections. The amount deemed payable as a prize on each 3/7 winning selection (free play) is $2.88.

Subject to Sections 10 and 11, prizes arising from the Main Draw are determined as follows:

¹If there was no winning selection in any one or more of the 7/7, 6/7+, 6/7, 5/7+, 5/7 or 4/7+ categories, the amount of the prize or the pool, as applicable, for each of those said categories for which there was no winning selection for that draw will be allocated to the Draw Fund to fund prizes of subsequent draws, at ILC’s discretion, provided that such allocation shall not include any amount which ILC may have undertaken to add to the Draw Fund to reach the amount of the Main Jackpot it had set as the amount of the Main Jackpot of such last preceding Main Draw.

²“Share of Main Jackpot” means an amount calculated by dividing the dollar amount of the Main Jackpot by the number of winning selections in the 7/7 category.

³"Share of Pool” means, with reference to winning selections in each of the 6/7+, 6/7, 5/7+, 5/7, and 4/7+ categories, an amount calculated by dividing the dollar amount of the Pool, for that category, by the number of winning selections in that category.

⁴A free play ticket is subject to the Game Conditions in effect on the draw date for which the free play ticket is issued.

8. THE MAXPLUS^TM SERIES

For the purposes hereof, a “tranche” means the number of times $1,000,000 occurs within the Main Jackpot (i.e. the amount of the Main Jackpot divided by $1,000,000). ILC will cause, immediately after the Main Draw, as many series of seven numbers (being seven different numbers) to be drawn at random from among all numbers from 1 to 52 (each such series of seven numbers is a "MAXPLUS Series") as there are tranches of $1,000,000 in the Main Jackpot (the “MAXPLUS Draws”). ILC has discretion to cause additional MAXPLUS Series to be drawn. Each prize offered as part of the MAXPLUS Draws is referred to as a “MAXPLUS Prize”. ILC will publicly announce the number of MAXPLUS Prizes that will be offered before the applicable draw date.

On draw dates specified by ILC, and at its sole discretion, ILC may increase the prize amount for all available MAXPLUS Prizes awarded through the MAXPLUS Draws. For clarity, each MAXPLUS Prize will be at least $100,000, and where ILC increases the minimum prize amount for MAXPLUS Draws, the prize amount will be the same for all MAXPLUS Draws for that draw date. Any such MAXPLUS Prize increase shall be announced by ILC in advance of the applicable draw date. For the avoidance of doubt, each such prize shall continue to be referred to as a “MAXPLUS Prize” for the purpose of these Game Conditions, notwithstanding its monetary value.

Subject to Sections 10 and 11, any valid ticket for that draw which bears any MAXPLUS Series of such draw is a winning ticket and entitles its holder(s) to claim, for each such MAXPLUS Series, a prize in an amount calculated by dividing the monetary value of a MAXPLUS Prize for that draw by the number of times such MAXPLUS Series appears on winning tickets.

The MAXPLUS Prizes will be funded out of the Draw Fund. Subject to the following, ILC will provide the additional funding required to satisfy the number of MAXPLUS Prizes it has set where the amount of the MAXPLUS Prizes is in excess of the Draw Fund for that draw (the “ILC MAXPLUS Funding”). The MAXPLUS Prizes which are won will be funded by the Draw Fund prior to utilizing funding from the ILC MAXPLUS Funding. If, in such draw, there is no winning ticket bearing a MAXPLUS Series, the amount of the prize for each such MAXPLUS Series will be allocated to the Draw Fund to fund prizes of subsequent draws, at ILC’s discretion, provided that only such MAXPLUS Prizes funded solely by the amount of the Draw Fund for that draw will be included in such allocation and such allocation shall not include any ILC MAXPLUS Funding.

9. THE MAXMILLIONS^TM SERIES

When the amount of the Main Jackpot for any given draw would otherwise equal or exceed $50,000,000, ILC will set in its sole discretion a number of MAXMILLIONS^TM prizes for that draw (each a “MAXMILLIONS Prize”). ILC will publicly announce the number of MAXMILLIONS Prizes that will be offered before the applicable draw date.

ILC will cause, immediately after the MAXPLUS Draws, as many series of seven numbers (being seven different numbers) to be drawn at random from among all numbers from 1 to 52 (each such series of seven numbers is a “MAXMILLIONS Series”) as the number of MAXMILLIONS Prizes publicly announced for that draw (the “MAXMILLIONS Draws”).

Subject to Sections 10 and 11, any valid ticket for that draw which bears any MAXMILLIONS Series of such draw is a winning ticket and entitles its holder(s) to claim, for each such MAXMILLIONS Series, a prize in an amount calculated by dividing $1,000,000 by the number of times such MAXMILLIONS Series appears on winning tickets.

The MAXMILLIONS Prizes will be funded out of the Draw Fund. Subject to the following, ILC will provide the additional funding required to satisfy the number of MAXMILLIONS Prizes it has set where the amount of the MAXMILLIONS Prizes is in excess of the Draw Fund for that draw (the “ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding”). The MAXMILLIONS Prizes which are won will be funded by the Draw Fund prior to utilizing funding from the ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding. If, in such draw, there is no winning ticket bearing a MAXMILLIONS Series, the amount of the prize for each such MAXMILLIONS Series will be allocated to the Draw Fund to fund prizes of subsequent draws, at ILC’s discretion, provided that only such MAXMILLIONS Prizes funded solely by the amount of the Draw Fund for that draw will be included in such allocation and such allocation shall not include any ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding.

For greater certainty and without limiting the generality of Sections 8 and 9, the following examples are offered to illustrate the foregoing:

Example 1: ILC decides to set the amount of the Main Jackpot at $50,000,000, ILC has set a number of 50 MAXPLUS Prizes at $100,000 and 2 MAXMILLIONS Prizes, the amount of the Draw Fund reaches $48,500,000, and there is no winning selection in the 7/7 category of the Main Draw:

• If 15 MAXPLUS Prizes and 2 MAXMILLIONS Prizes are won:
  • The $1,500,000 for the MAXPLUS Prizes will be funded by the Draw Fund;
  • The $2,000,000 for the MAXMILLIONS Prizes will be funded by the Draw Fund; and
  • $45,000,000 will be allocated to the Draw Fund to fund prizes of subsequent draws.

Example 2: ILC decides to set the amount of the Main Jackpot at $55,000,000, ILC has set a number of 55 MAXPLUS Prizes at $100,000 and 4 MAXMILLIONS Prizes, the amount of the Draw Fund reaches $58,800,000, and there is at least one winning selection in the 7/7 category of the Main Draw:

• If 14 MAXPLUS Prizes and 2 MAXMILLIONS Prizes are won:
  • The $55,000,000 Main Jackpot will be funded by the Draw Fund;
  • The $1,400,000 for the MAXPLUS Prizes will be funded by the Draw Fund;
  • The $2,000,000 for the MAXMILLIONS Prizes will be funded by the Draw Fund; and
  • $400,000 will be allocated to the Draw Fund to fund prizes of subsequent draws.
• If 20 MAXPLUS Prizes and 3 MAXMILLIONS Prizes are won:
  • The $55,000,000 Main Jackpot will be funded by the Draw Fund;
  • The $2,000,000 for the MAXPLUS Prizes will be funded by the Draw Fund;
  • The $3,000,000 for the MAXMILLIONS Prizes will first be funded by the remaining $1,800,000 in the Draw Fund and the ILC MAXMILLIONS Funding will be $1,200,000; and
  • No amount will be allocated to the Draw Fund to fund prizes of subsequent draws.

10. PRIZE CALCULATION - ROUNDING

For the 7/7, 6/7+, 6/7, 5/7+, 5/7 and 4/7+ categories, the MAXPLUS Prizes, and the MAXMILLIONS Prizes, the amount of each prize is calculated by dividing the dollar amount of that category’s pool or, in the case of the MAXPLUS Prizes, the monetary value of a MAXPLUS Prize in accordance with Section 8, and in the case of MAXMILLIONS Prizes, $1,000,000, by the number of winning selections in that category provided that:

(A)  for the Main Jackpot, MAXPLUS Prizes, and MAXMILLIONS Prizes, cents are increased to the next $0.10 (e.g. $8,075,487.12 is rounded up to $8,075,487.20), and

(B)  for 6/7+, 6/7, 5/7+, 5/7 and 4/7+ prizes, cents under $0.05 are reduced to $0.00 (e.g. $2,726.34 is rounded down to $2,726.30) and cents $0.05 and over are increased to $0.10 (e.g. $2,726.35 is rounded up to $2,726.40).

For the 4/7, 3/7+ and 3/7 categories, the prizes are fixed as set out in Section 7.

11. PRIZE CLAIMS

Prizes must be claimed within one year following the draw date.

12. ODDS OF WINNING

The approximate odds of winning in the Main Draw are set out as follows:

The approximate odds of winning in any MAXPLUS Draw or MAXMILLIONS Draw are the same as the odds of winning 7/7 in the Main Draw.