Huge 6 49 draw tonight. How many tickets were sold?

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xmontrealer

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Tonight's 6 49 & Gold Ball draw is huge. We're down to one White Ball and one Gold Ball. If the White/Gold Ball winner only gets $1,000,000 they're going to have seriously mixed emotions!

Tonight's Gold Ball prize is $66,000,000.

The regular draw has odds of just under 1 in 14,000,000 to match 6 out of 6 numbers and win all or part of the $5,000,000 jackpot..

I'm trying to find out the average amount of individual tickets sold for each 6 49 draw, realizing that a lot more will be sold when the top prize gets as high as it is.

Once we know the number of tickets sold for the Ball draw, in which one (and only one) ticket sold must win that draw, we can get some idea of the odds involved.

Does anybody have any idea of how many tickets were sold for a recent 6 49 draw?
 
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At 1:30 pm today, Sunday, Sept. 24, I bought a 6 49 ticket for the Sept. 27 draw.

My Gold Ball Draw number is 48******-01. I assume that means that mine was possibly the 48th million or so ticket purchased for the Sept. 27th draw, even this early.

Late in the day on Wednesday the 27th I will buy another single ticket, just to see what that ticket number is, and hopefully to see how many tickets have been sold up to that time.

I'm assuming that the tickets are issued with Gold Ball Draw numbers that can go up to 99,999,999-01, and then -02, and maybe even -03.

Hopefully that will give me some idea as to how many 6 49 tickets are sold for this very attractive prize, and therefore what the true odds are of winning it.
 
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The first digit of the guaranteed number represents the province or country region the ticket was bought in. So 4 would be for Ontario for this draw. And I find the specific province/country region number can change sometimes.

Numbers ending in -01, -02, etc happen on an individual ticket depending upon how many lines ($3 per play) that you buy on that ticket.
 
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mrcheeks said:
The first digit of the guaranteed number represents the province or country region the ticket was bought in. So 4 would be for Ontario for this draw. And I find the specific province/country region number can change sometimes.

Numbers ending in -01, -02, etc happen on an individual ticket depending upon how many lines ($3 per play) that you buy on that ticket.
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Wow! Where did you find that info???
 
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mrcheeks said:
The first digit of the guaranteed number represents the province or country region the ticket was bought in. So 4 would be for Ontario for this draw. And I find the specific province/country region number can change sometimes.

Numbers ending in -01, -02, etc happen on an individual ticket depending upon how many lines ($3 per play) that you buy on that ticket.
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Also, given the first number is the province,, and the 01 means I bought a one line ticket, how do they number any tickets sold in Ontario in excess of 9,999,999? I guess they would have to alter the first number, or the suffix, in some way, or even add an alphabetical letter to it, given the limit is supposedly 10 numbers including the suffix.

Again, if they did sell over 8,000,000 tickets in Ontario by 1:30 today, isn't it likely that Ontario ticket sales will exceed 10,000,000 tickets well before Wednesday night, given the size of the guaranteed prize??
 
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I just looked at trends. With regards to the first digit I always noticed that the first digit would be different for a non-Ontario guaranteed winner. I would find that out in the news the next day if the winner was in Alberta, New Brunswick, etc. The guaranteed number for the winner is always posted.

As for the last 2 digits I found that out by observing when I buy tickets. For my group for 6/49 we always buy 2 lines on an individual ticket and the guaranteed numbers will always be the same for that ticket except for -01 and -02 at the end.

I am just an avid lottery player and I am definitely not an OLG employee lol.
 
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mrcheeks said:
I just looked at trends. With regards to the first digit I always noticed that the first digit would be different for a non-Ontario guaranteed winner. I would find that out in the news the next day if the winner was in Alberta, New Brunswick, etc. The guaranteed number for the winner is always posted.

As for the last 2 digits I found that out by observing when I buy tickets. For my group for 6/49 we always buy 2 lines on an individual ticket and the guaranteed numbers will always be the same for that ticket except for -01 and -02 at the end.

I am just an avid lottery player and I am definitely not an OLG employee lol.
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Yeah. I just spoke to my brother in Manitoba. On his ticket for last night's Gold Ball Draw the first number was 3, which I am guessing refers to Manitoba, and the suffix was -07, as he had bought a 7 number combination ticket.

I tell him he's throwing his money away buying the multiple tickets, but it goes in one ear and out the other...
 
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torontonate said:
Yeah man, could you imagine?
I would put that money in a safe investment and live off the interest/gains on it and use that to do a lady at least weekly (overnights or something)
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52 weeks in a year, say 3Kfor an over night session. About 150K a year. You don't need 68 million to finance that at 68 you can go twice a day 2 hour sessions while not pushing risk and being well diversified or daily overnights even.
 
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