We remember these - rumour was they were discontinued because they encouraged gambling. The big prize was a t-shirt. I knew one kid that had one, and everyone in the school was jealous. This was in Winnipeg.

I remember these bars as well! I actually won a t-shirt from these guys! I have looked everywhere for graphics but I haven't seen anything.

I knew I wasnt dreaming when i was remembering these bars since nobody else remembers. I thought they had really trippy commercials with plasticine figures or something...but yeah ...i think it was collect the wrappers and once you had $3 then you could send it in for cash!

im glad to see i was not the only one on the planet who rembers these.. they were around in my childhood and are still to this day one of my fav's manufactures need to bring it back.....like old times........once we have one of these babys again

Yep. I remember watching the tv too seeing some wierd chocolate looking claymation type of animated "Coco Lotto" commercials. This is when I was a kid in the 80's, oh yes, in eastern Canada. For a brief while, it seemed all the neighborhood kids were eating these silly choco-lotto bars. I remember trying a couple myself and thinking they didn't really taste so good. But yeah, I do remember it.

These bars were my favorite.... I remember figuring out the 2nd chocolotto bar in, on the top, usually had a prize. I would go store to store looking for freshly open boxes always buying that specifically positioned bar. I made money and a lot of t-shirts...

Yeah, I remember weighing and shaking them before buying. I think if you got one with a quarter, you ended up making money and eating chocolate!

yes i remember if you got one that was 25 cents you could ad 5 cents and got 2 it was grate it has been sutch a long time i thought there was 4 or 5 kinds plane mint and don`t remember the other does anyone know what other ones

Anyone want to start a Chocolotto memory club, we could all meet up and eat chocolate.

Those were really good chocolate bars! I remember there was 3 types(I liked the yellow wrapper ones!) Too bad they stopped.

I have my shirt still!! light brown ringer tee with a cartoon guy smiling holding a chocolate bar. I will try and upload a pic, if i can do this on here. Glad i'm not the only one who remembers this, if it wasn't for the shirt, i would have thought i'd dreamt it up :p

How much for the shirt?

Thank u sarah! I would really like a good scan of the graphic! Would u send it to my email? Classic_rock975@hotmail.com. I would love to have a t-shirt like this.

If my memory serves me well, the mint Choco-Lotto was out of this world good. Even better than the Laura Secord ones.

i remember them vividly, i too had won a t shirt and sent in the wrappers to get my crisp $3 back in cash, also i recall all the different wrappers, 5,10,25 cents, free tshirt and lotto sweepstakes (i hated getting that one) the cost of the bars was 30 cents so it was great to get back as much as 25 cents-ah the memories, i don't have my tshirt anymore but i do have my i love nerds and i love runts t shirts which i sent away for :)

Thank you! Thank you! Everyone keeps telling me I'm crazy (and I may be, but at least clearly not on this point)'cause they don't remember them. Choco Lotto bars were my absolute favourite and I remeber being soooo jealous when my brother got a couple on top of his birthday present one year. But it was definitely late '70's - I used to get them from my neighbourhood corner store in Burlington, ON before we moved out East in 1980.

Nobody at work in Montreal, Quebec, remembers these bars! Loved the commercials with the claymataion figure whose head turned into a piece of mint!

Choco-loto.......Mint tingling mint...it's dairy good...Choco-loto...you just can't lose...I remember those crazy commercials, wish they were on youtube.

Yes I remember them! They were awesome! 30 cents and I won so many free bars. Wish they still made them. Does anyone have a picture of the wrapper? I think the mint was green, Regular was yellow and Rice was Red. They should bring them back!

I will buy a bar for $300, to anyone who has an original bar still in the wrapper.

...and here I thought I was the only one who remembered this bar! It was a lotto fun was it not. They were one hot fad in Nova Scotia,every kid in school were buying these bad boys.

Chocolotto was ahead of it`s time. It was superior to the Iphone and the Electric car. Who would have thunk it was such a trend setter

Chocolotto got me hooked on gambling at a young age. A habit I have yet to break.

I also found it gave me the gamble bug at the age of 12. From there it went to horse racing and now after rehab from a Las Vegas addiction I might have kicked the habit some 30 years later. Wish me luck. Thank you Chocolotto

Was my favorite. Lets go on deal den and try to resurrect the company.

I used an x ray scanner to find winning tickets and only buy those specific bars.

Chocolotto was fantastic. It brings tears to my eyes remembering the good old days. So much hope as a child only to be shattered by the reality that life as an adult is horrible.

I too remember these bars and loved the part about opening it to reveal "The Prize" mint flavored were my faves. I remember walking to Mac's in Winnipeg to get these bars every night after supper. Then I'd trudge through 2 feet of snow back home again. I also caught the gambling bug as a result. 30 years later, I'm living a secret life of gambling my self to death. Thanks Choco-lotto!!

Chocolotto was a pyramid system built on the explotation of chocolate and lotteries praying on children who loved both. Many going on to have difficulties later in life.

Chocolotto game me the gambling bug too but I was the lucky winner of Lotto Max. in December 2011. Now I live on a Cliffside house in Perth Australia and creit Chocolotto for the early gambling start.

I remember these bars vividly. I found the gambling to be a great cover so i could eat chocolate guilt free. I distinctly remember these in the summer of 82. I used to stock up on these things by brick and hide them in my room with my paper route money.

I loved these bars. I can`t believe others remember. that's so cool.

I want to eat one now. MMmmmmm Yummy Chocolotto

Chocolate was high in calories. You got fat while gambling as a child. Shane on them

Boy, do I remember these! Around 1982. The thing I remember most was sending in all of my cut-out 5, 10 and 25 cent circles, and getting back the crispest $1 bill and $2 bill I'd ever seen. I thought they were fake, as at 11 years old I'd never seen money so crisp and clean. I loved that $3!!!

I have a chocoLotto coffee cup

I used to love these... I remember the fun of getting a free chocolate bar! That must have cost them a bunch of money. Oh, something to note: in the picture of the shirt that was scanned it appears the bars were called ChocoLoto (not "lotto").

I remember these also. I would collect pop bottles all day To buy one I remember them being 25 cents I think to buy one Or 35 cents. My friend won the t-shirt also I was super jealous. Lol. Oh the good d days

These bars were the best chocolate and the best concept. I want to go back and eat one, then tell myself not to marry my current wife.

Oh the great memories of my Chocoloto summer. My best friend and I would take back her parents glass pop bottles to get the refund money and use it to buy our treats from the "corner store". The best summer day was winning a free Chocoloto from one we just won! My kids love hearing this story along with my penny candy memories!

Many have suffered the ill effects of gambling thanks to Choco lotto. Would a class action suit be recommended against chocolotto? Any lawyers out there?

The mint chocolates were better than anything on the market today. I actually collected enough for 3 dollars worth of wrappers and the company had sent me 3 fresh one dollar bills (pre-loonie). I also got lots of free bars, as well. Miss those days of youth.

LOL I cant believe I googled this and wasnt the only one who remembers them. I grew up in Brantford On, and used to stop in at Willy's Olde Time Ice Cream every day to buy them. Good memories....

If you google "Lowney Chocoloto Wrapper", you can see a wrapper!

I'd forgotten all about this chocolate bar until a student in the high school where I teach came into class with a green Lotto shirt. Everything came back in a flash. It turns out her mother had won it way back when and the girl had adopted it as her own. Nice little flashback but made me feel old.

Was just doing a survey about chocolate and that got me thinking about Chocolotto. I didn't remember how it was spelled or what it looked like. I just know my dad used to buy big boxes of them at the Cash'N'Carry and my sister and I would gorge on them. I don't remember if we ever had enough points for anything. I loved the one with the rice crispies in it.

I’m glad this site exists just to confirm I’m not crazy. Well, I still might be but those bars were delicious! The gambling aside, I would love to have one of the mint bars again. So good!

I found a chocolotto bar wrapper in my sisters vette when she suckered me into cleaning it i filled it out and Sept 2nd when i went back to school Lowneys called my house and asked for me anyway to make a long story short they said i had one a trip to Disney world or land in California they asked her a skill testing question anyway i took a trip to Orlando for 14 days for me my sister and one brother and my mother and father with 2500 dollars spending money, That was a lot in the early 80's lol

Surprised no one has mentioned that in the song "Hold it Now, Hit it," by the Beastie Boys, the strange voice (third chorus) answers back to the 1uestion "Are you Leroy?" with "Bust a Choco-Loto..." That was my intro to the candy. But I'm West Coast, so I don't think we got them out here.

Stephen & John Pitts, you're a couple of degenerate gamblers!

I would open the wrappers in the store to see which ones had the better reward. If it was too low I'd put it back.