Super Lotto 7 Game

Super Lotto 7 refers to the lottery game that is organized in Canada on the national level accompanied with Lotto 6/49. The drawings takes place on each night of Friday and has popularly turned up as a staple for Canadian lottery players.

The initial beginning amount in Super Lotto 7 that is the Jackpot mark comes to around $ 2.5 million. It is carried to the next game if not even a single ticket is matches the 17 numbers. The biggest paid jackpot was given out in the May of 2002 to 4 people, who got success in acquiring $37.8 million worth of jackpot.

Super Lotto 7 is carried out by the Inter provincial Lottery Corporation that is working in co-ordination with many Provincial lottery corporations. It is government run and the profit that is earned is distributed among all the retailers, who are involved in selling of the tickets. They also get a percentage of the winnings made by the lottery ticket that is sold out from their shop and this amount is not directly reduced from the prize money.

Super Lotto 7 as suggested by the name deals with 7 numbers that are selected from a total of numbers that range from one to forty-seven. The prizes that are usually given out can be a free play or a jackpot depending on the luck of the player.

The tickets for Super Lotto 7 are available in all parts of Canada in the five jurisdictions namely British Columbia Lottery Corporation, Western Canada Lottery Corporation, Ontario Lottery and Gaming, Lotto-Québec and Atlantic Lottery Corporation.

The tickets can at most be purchased till the cut off time that is marked at 9:00 p.m. ET on Friday nights. A selection of seven numbers is provided in Super Lotto 7 thrice for every $2 paid. Not only this they also have an add-on regional game which is named as Encore in the Ontario Lottery and Gaming which is usually provided for $1.

While in the Western Canada Lottery Corporation the same add-on in Super Lotto 7 is referred to as Extra and it gives the player to win a big prize amounting to $250,000.00. The Extra actually is the seven digit number. The players in order to get success match the numbers initiating from the end part.

The Super 7 radio and TV ads is comprised of big and hit marketing campaigns for Super Lotto 7 that highlights 7 Super Heroes. These are namely 2 Weeks Notice Man, Relaxo, The Splurger, Cosmetica, Jesse Streets, Professor Posh as well as The Destinator.

The fixed prizes in Super Lotto 7 relating to 3 of 7, 3 of 7+ Bonus and 4 of 7 are given out from the Prize Fund that constitutes 45% of sales. The remaining part is the Pools Fund which is utilized to meet other pari-mutuel shares of prizes. Lotto Super 7