Press release

Montréal, April 23, 2024 — Several Mauricie residents won big in the April 16 Lotto Max draw: eleven current and former colleagues took home a $1,000,000 prize! The winners gathered at the Salon de jeux de Trois-Rivières on April 23 to receive their share. Some of them took some time off work for the occasion and returned later in the day.

Highlights

• When Yves Dupont saw that the Lotto Max jackpot was going from 60 to 70 million in 2019, he convinced 10 of his colleagues to create a lottery group.
• Even if some have since retired, they still play together.
• Dupont discovered they’d won the day after the draw as he checked his ticket with the Loto-Québec Lotteries app. He couldn’t believe the result he was seeing!
• He checked the ticket three times before calling each group member to share the great news.
• Many of the winners said the win was a blessing.

The winning ticket was purchased at Dépanneur Roger 2, located at 667 Rue De La Vérendrye in Trois-Rivières. The retailer will receive a 1% commission of $10,000.

The 11 winners are:

Lotto Max continues to churn out winners in Québec

• Lotto Max players in Québec have won over $3.637 billion since the lottery game’s launch in 2009.
• In total, there have been 43 jackpot wins in Québec, including three of $70,000,000—the largest jackpots ever won in Québec—in the February 25, 2020, October 9, 2020, and June 7, 2022, draws.
• Quebecers have also been the lucky winners of one $65,000,000 jackpot, four $60,000,000 jackpots, five $55,000,000 jackpots and nine $50,000,000 jackpots.
• In addition to these jackpot wins, Lotto Max players in Québec have also won a total of 222 Maxmillions prizes, each worth $1 million, and 140 shares of Maxmillions prizes.

About Loto-Québec

Loto-Québec has been delivering entertainment to Quebecers for over 50 years, and its operations benefit Québec as a whole. In 2023, it paid out over $1.6 billion in prizes to lottery winners. Major prize winners are listed on the Winners page in the Lotteries section of lotoquebec.com. Read their stories.

The responsible commercialization of lottery and gaming products is central to Loto-Québec’s operations. The corporation has been granted the highest internationally recognized certification in responsible gaming by the World Lottery Association.