Encore is a unique game in the Canadian lottery system. It is unique because you cannot purchase a standalone Encore game; it must be purchased in addition to another game like Lotto 649, Daily Keno, Atlantic 49, or Lottario. That’s why it’s called Encore, because it’s an additional game in response to demand by the players. So, you play a lottery game and then have the option of paying an extra dollar to play Encore.

The Encore game has a top prize of $1 million. You play it whenever you buy lottery tickets. But have you ever wondered what the odds of winning Encore are? It’s really simple to calculate. First of all, you need to know that the game provides you with a seven-digit number. The number can be anything from 0000000 to 9999999. If you look at it as just a number, you can have a ticket that has a number from 0 to 9,999,999. In other words, there are 10,000,000 possible numbers (Not 9,999,999 because the numbers don’t start from number 1, they start from number 0). Therefore, your odds of winning the $1 million Encore jackpot are exactly 1-in-10-million.

Of course, there are other big prizes available to be won. You could win by matching the last 6 numbers. The odds of that are 1-in-1-million, which gives you a prize of $100,000. Or, you could win by matching the first 6 numbers. That gives you a prize of $10,000 and also has odds of 1-in-1-million.