Group of 12 co-workers claim $60M Lotto Max jackpot

A dozen employees at the vehicle valuation service in Markham are about $60 million richer after picking up the cheque for a record Lotto Max jackpot on Thursday morning.

The group of workers, who are employed by Canadian Black Book, purchased their ticket in Brampton, Ont. and will each receive $5 million.

Andy Duncan, Chief Executive of Camelot UK Lotteries Limited, said: “Lotto has enjoyed two years of consecutive growth since we re-invigorated the game in 2013 – and has already delivered over £250 million more to Good Causes than if we had done nothing to change the game”. He pulled over at the next gas station and scanned his ticket.

Then on Monday, Cartier said he showed up at work on his day off and took the others into the board room to inform them that he was done playing the lotto and that they needed to settle an outstanding claim.

Cartier says he had ordered a burrito for lunch on Saturday and was driving over to pick it up when he realized he hadn’t checked his group’s lottery ticket from the Friday draw.

He couldn’t believe what he saw, so he went home and checked the ticket online.

“And I handed out prize forms with the ticket attached to it and they were pretty excited”, he said. “It was chaos”, he said. The new game will see one code winning a top-tier award of £1 million in a regular draw, as well as a further 20 codes winning £20,000 each.

Cartier told them “there is one more thing”.

“That’s when it all became very real”, said Cartier.