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Canadian Western 649 Complete Odds
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The purpose of this page is to provide Western 649 players with the supplemental information that is not readily available on the sponsored lottery site.
| Western 649 Highlights | Mid-size | 1.86% | 98.14% | 53.66 | C$0.65 | - Fixed - | C$35.08 |
| Class | Winners | Losers | Overall Odds | Overall Return | Return Sensitivity | Payout per C$ |
We believe this is important because most lotteries only provide players with minimal amount of information: the odds of each winning combination occuring; the overall probability of having a winning ticket; the price of each ticket; the game format; the total number of combinations; and a few other items.
However, this page fills in the missing blanks. Included here are the complete odds and probibilities of every winning and losing occurring. It provides you with a comparison of winners to losers, the monies collected, the monies distributed back to players, and more.
Lottery Power Picks has taken every effort to ensure that this summary information is correct by reading and bookmarking all informtion provided by the organizing lottery body. But, in certain instances, clearly defined rules are not written. In those instances, we made assumptions that are linguistically consistant with the rules. Should any information be incorrect, please inform us so that we may correct it. We hope you find this information useful in understanding the lottery you play.
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About The Western 649 is a Canadian Regional lottery. It is governed by the Western Canada Lottery Corporation. It is available in Alberta, Manitoba, Nortwest Territories, Nunavut, Saskatchewan, and the Yukon Territory. Format For every two combinations, Western 649 requires a player to make 1 choice: (1) Pick 6 numbers out of a set of 49 white balls. The second combination is always a Quick Pick. If the player's combinations are the same numbers as those that are drawn in the next drawing, the player wins the Jackpot prize. Smaller prizes are awarded for other combinations. A bonus ball is also selected. This is used for awarding alternate prizes. Class Western 649 is a Mid-size Lottery. We classify it as such because it has a format nearly identical to Lotto 649. Prizes The Western 649 jackpot prize is fixed at C$1,000,000; and, all other cash prizes are predefined as well. These are summarized in the table below. Note that no portion of the proceeds are rolled forward in to the following drawings. This means that the jackpot never grows. Combinations In the Western 649, there are a total of 13,983,816 combinations. Winners Of these, there are 260,6254 winning combinations. This represents 1.86% of the combinations. The overall odds of having a winning combination is 53.66 to 1 (the lower the better). Losers There are 13,723,192 losing Western 649 combinations. This is 98.14% of the combinations. The overall odds of having a losing combination is 1.02 to 1 (the higher the better; because as this number gets closer to 1, nearly every ticket is a loser. Price Each Western 649 combination costs C$0.50, but a player is required to always buy 2 at a time. Money Raised
Assuming all tickets are sold and there are no duplicates, a total of C$6,991,908 will be raised.
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Prize Pool Of this, C$4,571,450 will be allocated to the prize pool to be paid back to the players when the jackpot is set to C$1.0 million. This amount is always fixed since all prizes are predetermined, and the jackpot does not vary. Average Winning Ticket Payout On the average, each winning ticket will pay C$17.54 to the players. Since each combination costs C$0.50, the normalized payout per C$ spent is C$35.08 Income Returned to Players Based on this information, C$0.65 of each C$ raised will be returned to the players. Return Sensitivity (dR) In Western 649, the return sensitivity is always 0.0, because the jackpot is fixed. Jackpot Parity In order for Western 649 to return C$1.00 for each $C raised, the Jackpot must be equal to C$3,420,458. However, this will never be reached because the jackpot is fixed at C$1,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The following Table summarizes the odds, occurances, probability, number of winning combinations, percent of prize pool, prize payout per combination, and the total cash payout of the combination pool.
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