Looking for 649 winning numbers is likely to mean that you want to see the results of Lotto 649, a game offered by the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (known as OLG) as well as the Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC), the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC), and the Atlantic Lottery Corporation (ALC). In this game, players choose six numbers from 1 to 49, hence the name of the game. Draws for the 649 winning numbers are held on Wednesdays and Saturdays by the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation (ILC). Lotto 649 was the first Canadian lottery game to allow people to choose their own numbers instead of relying on preprinted numbers on tickets and it gradually phased out Canadian lottery games that had preprinted numbers on tickets.
For an OLG Lotto 649 game, a bonus number is drawn in addition to the six regular 649 winning numbers that have been mentioned. Prize categories in Lotto 649 depend on the number of matches: 6/6 jackpot, 5/6 + bonus, 5/6, 4/6, 3/6, and 2/6 + bonus. The prize pool for the game is based on a pari-mutuel share, where calculation of the total money allocated to a prize category is divided by the number of winners in that category.
Lotto 649 jackpots on Wednesday have a base-level estimate of 3 million dollars, but on Saturday, they are estimated at 3.5 million. This is because the jackpot estimates are based on sales. Throughout Canada, sales for the Saturday draws are usually higher than for the Wednesday draws.
Since people who play the lottery have a tendency to select certain number combinations more often than other possible number combinations, this tendency can cause a greater quantity of tickets with 649 winning numbers and lower prize shares for the winners. Popular combinations of lottery numbers include those based on (1) number sequences; (2) multiples of numbers; (3) the vertical, horizontal, or diagonal number formations on selection slips; and (4) variations of birth dates or historic dates.
The approximate odds of getting the exact 649 winning numbers in Lotto 649 (and in any typical 6-from-49 lottery game, for that matter) are 1 in 13,983,816. The odds of winning any prize in this game, however, are just slightly better than 1 in 32.
Some of the United States lotteries have 649 winning numbers for their lottery games too. Examples are Washington’s Lottery (lotto), Pennsylvania Lottery (Match 6 Lotto), the New Jersey Lottery (Pick 6 Lotto), and the Massachusetts State Lottery (Megabucks Doubler).
