Lotto Max ticket sold in Timiskaming-Cochrane is $70 million winner

The winner of Tuesday night’s $70 million Lotto Max jackpot bought their ticket in the Timiskaming-Cochrane area of northeastern Ontario, lottery officials say.

This is the fifth Lotto Max jackpot won in Ontario since April.

“That means in the past four months alone, OLG has paid out a combined $265 million in Lotto Max jackpot winnings to lucky Ontarians, and now we can add another $70 million on top of that,” the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation said in a news release Wednesday morning.

“We also have several new millionaires, who are holding winning Maxmillions tickets plus we had some big Encore winners as well!”

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

Tickets sold in Peterborough, Ottawa, Mississauga, Toronto and online won $1 million prizes.

Encore ticket add-ons sold in Unionville, Kingston and Ottawa won prizes ranging from $100,000 to $1 million.

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