TORONTO - Another huge lottery jackpot is up for grabs this Friday.
The Lotto Max jackpot stands at an estimated $40 million for the fourth time since the game was launched in September 2009.
Players can purchase tickets at authorized retailers until 9 p.m. on May 28.
The most recent Lotto Max jackpot of more than $40 million was won on April 23rd by an Alberta welder laid off just a few weeks earlier.
Thirty-two-year-old Cameron Blair won $41.7 million to claim the second largest lottery jackpot ever won by an individual in Canada.
In February, two tickets split a $50 million Lotto Max draw -- one in Quebec and the other in British Columbia. Last November, Marie Fontaine of Pine Falls, Manitoba pocketed a $50-million Lotto Max prize.
The Canadian record is a Lotto 6/49 prize of $54.3 million won in 2005 by 17 people in Camrose, Alberta. Each took home $3.2 million.
