Someone is $5M richer after buying lotto ticket online in New Brunswick

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Posted March 27, 2025 8:26 am

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'N.B. man claims $64M lotto win just 19 days before expiry'

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After a search that spanned nearly one year, a crab fisherman from New Brunswick has claimed the largest lottery prize ever won in Atlantic Canada — $64-million dollars — just 19 days before the ticket was set to expire. Atlantic Lottery's Communications Director, Molly Cormier, said, "We are just very, very excited that this story has concluded with such a happy ending." – Mar 28, 2024

Lottery players in New Brunswick are going to want to check their tickets.

Atlantic Lottery says a winning $5 million Lotto 6/49 was sold on the the http://www.alc.ca, N.B. for the March 26 draw.

Who the prize winner or winners are is not know, but at least one person in the province appears to be $5 million richer.

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Details on the prize winner or winners will be released as soon as they come forward, the lottery corporation says in a Thursday morning release.

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The lotto victory comes about year after a lengthy search to find the N.B. winner of a $64-million lotto prize finally ended.

The largest win ever in Atlantic Canada was finally claimed in March, 2024 by a local crab fisherperson.

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