More winning lottery tickets were drawn in Toronto on Saturday night, with a $6 million jackpot ticket sold in Ontario’s capital.
The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) said the winning ticket for Saturday’s Lotto 6/49 draw was sold somewhere in Toronto, while the second place ticket — worth just over $100,000 — was sold in Etobicoke.
A separate ticket for a guaranteed prize of $1 million was sold in Sudbury, along with an Encore ticket of the same value sold in the Timiskaming and Cochrane region of Ontario.
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One person in Kingston purchased an Encore ticket worth $100,000.
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The jackpot for the next draw on Aug. 10 will be an estimated $5 million, with a guaranteed prize of $1 million.
The draws follow the news that the Lotto Max jackpot of $55 million was drawn on Friday for a ticket sold in Toronto.
A separate encore winning ticket, with a prize of $100,000, was sold in Chatham-Kent, OLG said of Friday’s draw.
— with files from The Canadian Press
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