Two Lotto 649 Players Share C$41M Prize Matching Sleeper Combination

It's not too often that the Lotto 649 jackpot grows to C$41 million and is then won by a sleeper. But that's exactly what happened in the Saturday February 19th 2011 drawing.

The excitement ran through Canada as nobody won a 649 jackpot since January 22nd. In this 8th drawing since that date, or 4 weeks later, the numbers began to pop up. When it was done, the all even combination of:

10 16 20 26 34 48  and bonus ball 40

appeared. Surprisingly, two tickets from Quebec matched this straight 6 number draw, and now each one shares half of the C$41M.

The last two times all 6 numbers were even in this lottery were on October 16 and March 10 2010, but jackpot was not won either time.  As a reference, there are only 134,596 all even combinations in Lotto 649. This represents only 1% of all the available 13,983,816 numbers. So, this is indeed a sleeper combination!

Congratulations to the winners!