Beyond Local: Alberta’s ‘good luck town’ lives up to name after $5 million lotto win
James Munro will take some time to plan what to do with his winnings, hinting at an international golf trip and a desire to visit Australia.
Langdon resident James Munro has been playing the same set of numbers every week for his Lotto 6/49 purchases.
For the June 13 draw, nearly 44 years to the day of the launch of Lotto 6/49, that routine finally paid off.
The following morning, as he was waking up for work, he discovered an email from the Play Alberta team informing him that he won $5 million– tying the largest prize ever won on Alberta’s only regulated iGaming website.
“I didn’t have my glasses on and I was looking at the email and said to myself, ‘I can’t see the number’,” Munro recalled as he described his win. “When I put my glasses on, it was very big. It’s shocking… when it will set in is in two weeks’ time when I don’t have to drive up north to work.”
Munro sent a message to his wife, who also had trouble processing that many zeroes. He said he will take some time to plan what to do with his winnings but hinted at an international golf trip and a desire to visit Australia.
He went on to praise the simplicity of using Play Alberta to buy his lottery tickets and the ability to have a subscription in the event he didn’t have time to log in and make a purchase before that day’s draw.
This month’s win on Play Alberta matches a $5 million payout from May 2025, which was also under the Lotto 6/49 banner.
Play Alberta continues to expand its social responsibility features. AGLC’s all-new Self-Exclusion Program is now available on Play Alberta, giving players a hands-on approach to their self-exclusion journey and the ability to exclude from all provincially regulated iGaming platforms, land-based venues or both.
Play Alberta generated $289 million in net sales in 2025-26, an increase of $20 million from the previous year.
That number contributes to the $1.5 billion in total gaming revenue that’s sent to Alberta’s General Revenue Fund and supports provincial programs and services.
The community of Langdon east of Calgary calls itself the “Good Luck Town;” as it indeed proved to be in this case.
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