The winner of Tuesday night time’s $70 million Lotto Max jackpot purchased their ticket within the Timiskaming-Cochrane space of northeastern Ontario, lottery officers say.

That is the fifth Lotto Max jackpot gained in Ontario since April.

“Which means up to now 4 months alone, OLG has paid out a mixed $265 million in Lotto Max jackpot winnings to fortunate Ontarians, and now we will add one other $70 million on prime of that,” the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Company mentioned in a information launch Wednesday morning.

“We even have a number of new millionaires, who’re holding successful Maxmillions tickets plus we had some massive Encore winners as effectively!”

Half of the 14 Maxmillions winners from the Aug. 20 draw are from Ontario.

Tickets bought in Peterborough, Ottawa, Mississauga, Toronto and on-line gained $1 million prizes.

Encore ticket add-ons bought in Unionville, Kingston and Ottawa gained prizes starting from $100,000 to $1 million.

To say the prize, the winner has to reply a collection of questions concerning the buy to show they’re the one who purchased the ticket.

“Whereas OLG is aware of every part about that ticket, we now have to attend for the particular person or individuals holding the ticket to return ahead and undergo our routine prize declare evaluate course of to find out that they’re the rightful proprietor of the ticket,” OLG spokesperson Tony Bitonti advised CTVNewsNorthernOntario.ca in an e-mail Wednesday morning.

One of many many questions that’s requested is that if the numbers have been chosen or generated at random.

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