Media Alert - Tonight's LOTTO 6/49 draw worth $22 million!

LOTTO 6/49 continues to offer bigger jackpots more often, and tonight's draw is estimated at $22 million!

In just one week the jackpot has grown from $14 million offered on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 to tonight's big $22 million. Players can purchase tickets at Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLGC) retailers until 9:00 p.m.

Ontarians win often, and win big with LOTTO 6/49. Since LOTTO 6/49 was launched in June 1982, Ontario players have won more than $6.9 billion in prizes including more than 1,037 jackpot wins.

LOTTO 6/49 is operated and managed in the province by OLGC, a provincial agency responsible for province-wide lottery games, commercial and charitable casinos, and the operation and management of slot machine facilities at horse racing tracks. It is a provincial offence, punishable by fines, to sell OLGC lottery tickets to anyone under 18 years of age.

Know your limit. Play within it!

THE ONTARIO PROBLEM GAMBLING HELPLINE 1-888-230-3505.

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www.OLGC.ca

For further information: CONTACT: OLGC PUBLIC AFFAIRS, (705) 946-6716, (416) 324-6541