Lottery Odds

When you buy lottery tickets for our lottery draws from our lottery concierge, be aware that each lottery from around the world plays different. Many have different sets of balls, with varying numbers and rules but this variation also affect the lottery odds, giving you more chance to win some lottery draws than others but also adding to lottery rollovers.

Of course the bigger the lottery odds, the less chance of having a winning lottery ticket but the more chance of a rollover and even bigger lottery jackpots! It's for this reason you shouldn't dismiss buying lottery tickets for draws with long odds, it's all the more reason to put together a lottery ticket syndicate to increase your chances at the bumper jackpots.

Here, we take a look at some of our favourite lottery draws and the odds of winning the big prizes as a single lottery ticket holder, or a lottery ticket syndicate.

Euromillions Lottery

Match 5 + 2: Odds - 1 in 116,531,800
Match 5 + 1: Odds - 1 in 6,473,989
Match 5: Odds - 1 in 3,236,995
Overall odds of having a winning lottery ticket - 1 in 13

Powerball Lottery

Match 5 + Powerball: Odds - 1 in 175,223,510
Match 5: Odds - 1 in 5,153,632.64
Match 4 + Powerball: Odds - 1 in 648,975.96
Overall odds of having a winning lottery ticket - 1 in 31.84

MegaMillions Lottery

Match 5 + Mega Ball: Odds - 1 in 175,711,536
Match 5: Odds - 1 in 3,904,701
Match 4 + Mega Ball - 1 in 689,065
Overall odds of having a winning lottery ticket - 1 in 39

SuperEnalotto Italy

Match 6: Odds - 1 in 622,614,630
Match 5 + Jolly Number: Odds - 1 in 103,769,105
Match 5: Odds - 1 in 1,250,230
Overall odds of having a winning lottery ticket - unknown

These are the odds of winning some of our most popular lottery draws and they probably make you and your lottery ticket feel very lowly indeed, but lottery jackpots are won every week. Even the big lottery draws such as the SuperEnalotto, which has the longest odds of any lottery draw get won, someone beats the odds and finds themselves holding the winning lottery ticket. As they say, you have to be in it to win it!