{"id":707020,"date":"2026-06-01T03:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707020\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T03:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:40:15","slug":"winning-lotto-6-49-gold-ball-jackpot-ticket-worth-16m-sold-in-peterborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707020\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning Lotto 6\/49 Gold Ball jackpot ticket worth $16M sold in Peterborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A person who purchased a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/lotto-649\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lotto 6\/49<\/a> ticket for Saturday\u2019s draw in Ontario is about to become $16 million richer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) says the $16-million Gold Ball Jackpot ticket was purchased in Peterborough, Ont.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>The second prize worth about $170,800 was won in the Parry Sound-Nippissing area.<\/p>\n<p>The Gold Ball Draw, according to OLG, guarantees a $1-million prize, and the growing jackpot that starts at $10 million and can reach up to $60 million.<\/p>\n<p>People are encouraged to check their tickets if they bought one in these areas.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A person who purchased a Lotto 6\/49 ticket for Saturday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,67347,256958],"class_list":["post-707020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lottery","tag-lotto-649"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}