Every Gold Ball Cycle So Far: 22 Gold Balls and 377 Instant Millionaires
✓ Published July 8, 2026 · Built from verified draw data — our methodology
When Lotto 6/49 relaunched with the Gold Ball Draw on September 14, 2022, it added something no other Canadian lottery has: a guaranteed winner every single draw. Nearly four years later, the numbers are remarkable.
The Gold Ball by the numbers
- 22 completed cycles — every one tracked draw-by-draw in our cycle history table.
- 377 white-ball winners, each guaranteed $1,000,000.
- 22 gold-ball jackpot winners, from a $12 million quick strike (cycle #22, just 2 draws) to the maximum $68 million when cycle #5 ran all 30 draws from June to September 2023 — won in Ontario.
- Average cycle length: 17.7 draws, about nine weeks.
Why the structure is clever
Every draw removes one ball, so the odds of the gold ball appearing shorten mechanically — from 1 in 30 at the start of a cycle to a coin-flip and beyond if it runs long. That is arithmetic, not luck: the tracker shows the exact odds for the next draw at any moment.
Cycle #23 is currently 9 draws in with a $28 million gold jackpot. Watch the machine here.