Lottery lab

Compare the world’s biggest lotteries.

Eighteen of the planet’s most-played draws, side by side — jackpot odds, any-prize odds, ticket price, draw days and number format. Filter, sort, visualise the odds, build a head-to-head, then generate your numbers.

Odds, visualised

Jackpot odds on a logarithmic scale — shorter, greener bars are better chances; long red bars are the moonshots. Reflects your current filter.

🎄 Bonus · the one that breaks the table

El Gordo de Navidad 🇪🇸

The Spanish Christmas Lottery is the biggest lottery on Earth by total prize money — but it’s a raffle, not a number pick. You buy a pre-printed número (or a €20 décimo), so it can’t slot into the table above. It’s drawn once a year on 22 December, with the winning numbers famously sung by the schoolchildren of San Ildefonso.

~€2.7bn total prize pool €4,000,000 top prize / full ticket 1 in 100,000 to land El Gordo ~1 in 7 tickets win something until the draw
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Want the raw probabilities?
See the full lottery winning odds & statistics, game by game — your true chances at the jackpot and at any prize.
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Head-to-head

Tap Compare on any cards (up to 3) to stack them up. The best value in each row gets a ★.

🎯 Odds in perspective

Pick a game and see its jackpot odds against a few everyday long shots.

🧮 Cost & chance calculator

How much would steady play cost — and what would your overall jackpot chance become?

You’d buy tickets, spend about , and your overall jackpot chance becomes:

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Questions

Which lottery has the best jackpot odds?
Of the eighteen here, the UK’s Thunderball has the shortest jackpot odds at roughly 1 in 8.1 million, with Irish Lotto and La Primitiva close behind. The longest belong to Italy’s SuperEnalotto (about 1 in 622 million) and the big US games.
Which is cheapest to play?
The Chinese games — Double Color Ball and Super Lotto — come in around £0.22 a line, while Mega Millions and Lotto Max sit at the top of the price range.
Are these odds exact?
They’re based on each game’s published format and rounded to the commonly quoted figures, but operators change rules and prices over time. Always confirm the current odds and price with the official lottery before you play.
Does buying more lines help?
It scales linearly — ten lines make you ten times likelier to hit the jackpot than one, but the odds stay astronomically long. The calculator above shows your combined chance and total spend over any number of years.
Play responsibly. Lotteries are games of chance for entertainment, not an investment or income. Odds, prices and currency conversions are approximate and change — verify with each official operator. 18+ (or the legal age where you live). If gambling stops being fun, take a break or seek support.
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