Janine Lubey, centre, promotes the Lotto-Max lottery at Yonge and Dundas Square in Toronto on Friday, September 25, 2015.
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September 17, 2025 - 5:00 AM
Some folks say the lottery is just a bit of fun, other folks say it’s a tax on those who aren’t good with statistics. No matter your view on the lottery, it’s fun to fantasize about a big pile of cash landing in your lap.
Here are the numbers:
3: Vernon residents have won big in the lottery so far in 2025.
1,630,000: Dollars was the total prize for the three big Vernon winners.
5,000,000: Dollars was how much a Kamloops man won from a scratch and win ticket, the biggest scratcher prize ever awarded in B.C.
1,452,000,000: Dollars worth of lottery tickets were sold in B.C. in 2024.
705,000: Dollars were paid out to B.C. lottery players in 2024.
1: Kelowna woman wanted to buy a Hummer after winning the lottery.
2,000,000: Dollars was how much a B.C. trucker won in the lottery, but his coworkers tried to sue claiming it was a lottery pool between colleagues.
150,000: Dollars is how much a West Kelowna grandmother won when she was paid for babysitting with a $20 scratcher.
3: Dollars gets you a 1 in 13,983,816 chance of winning Lotto 6/49.
52: Weeks is the deadline to redeem a winning lottery ticket after it’s printed.
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