TORONTO (CBC) - Starting next week, it will be replaced by a new lottery Lotto Max that will be a lot more expensive.

Players hoping to cash in on the multimillion-dollar Super 7 jackpots had been able to get into the game for as little as $2. Lotto Max will cost a minimum of $5.

Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. spokesman Don Pister doesn't think the OLG is taking a gamble on the new, more expensive game.

"Lottery spending has held very steady in this year, as compared to previous years," he said. "Lottery tickets even at $5 are still an inexpensive form of gaming entertainment."

In exchange for the higher price, the new lottery will feature larger jackpots and side prizes.

As a goodbye gesture to the old Super 7, the OLG has also decided to do something a little different sweeten the prize pot and make it easier to win the top prize.

With an estimated jackpot of about $21 million for the final draw, the OLG put unique provisions in place to help ensure that someone takes home the jackpot.

For the first time, if no one matches all seven winning numbers, the $21 million will be shared by those who have six numbers plus the bonus number

If that fails to produce a winner, the jackpot will go to third place finishers who match six of seven numbers.

The winning numbers in Friday's final draw were 5, 8, 10, 13, 22, 36 and 47. The bonus number was 38.

Pister said that means the odds of winning jump from one in 21 million to one in 76,000.

"Perhaps a more easy-to-understand way of looking at it is that if this had been the draw of last week, across Canada there were 142 winners of the third prize," he said.

Those 142 winners each took home $1,700, but this week they might have netted $147,000 each.

Mike Panner of Toronto has his ticket and likes his chances.

"I didn't know there were better odds," he said. "Now I'm happier."

But even the improved odds aren't enough to entice some.

Heidi Linch won't be playing.

"I'm poor and I don't want to get addicted to gambling at young age," she said.

Over the past 15 years, Super 7 has sold $11.5 billion worth of tickets and paid out almost $7 billion in winnings.