Australian lotteries

This week's jackpots, the real chance anyone wins them, and what one game pays back on average. Spoiler: it's less than you pay.

Last updated 16 Oct 2026 22:00 AEDT (success)

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Draws in the next 7 days division 1 jackpots

Game	Today 17 Oct	Tomorrow 18 Oct	Mon 19 Oct	Tue 20 Oct	Wed 21 Oct	Thu 22 Oct	Fri 23 Oct
Saturday Lotto	$6M	·	·	·	·	·	·
Weekday Lotto	·	·	$1M	·	$1M	·	$1M
Oz Lotto	·	·	·	$40M	·	·	·
Powerball	·	·	·	·	·	$10M	·
Set for Life	$5M	$5M	$5M	$5M	$5M	$5M	$5M

Saturday Lotto Today $6M
Weekday Lotto Mon 19 Oct $1M
Oz Lotto Tue 20 Oct $40M
Powerball Thu 22 Oct $10M
Set for Life Today $5M

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Will the jackpot go?

A jackpot "goes" when at least one ticket wins division 1. If nobody does, it rolls over and gets bigger. Bigger jackpots pull in more players, and that makes them more likely to be won. The ones most likely to go are first.

Saturday Lotto

Today

$6M jackpot

Likely to be won

99% chance someone wins it

Paid back per game, on average: 44¢
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Oz Lotto

Tue 20 Oct

$40M jackpot

Could go either way

42% chance someone wins it

Paid back per game, on average: 94¢
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Powerball

Thu 22 Oct

$10M jackpot

Likely to roll over

17% chance someone wins it

Paid back per game, on average: 51¢
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Weekday Lotto

Mon 19 Oct

$1M top prize (fixed)

Fixed prize, so it never rolls over

52% chance someone wins the top prize

Paid back per game, on average: 36¢
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Set for Life

Today

$5M top prize (fixed)

Fixed prize, so it never rolls over

5% chance someone wins the top prize

Paid back per game, on average: 38¢
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"Paid back per game" is what one game returns on average, counting every prize division. Most games still win nothing at all. Your prices stay in this browser.

How this is worked out

First we estimate how many games get sold at a jackpot that size, using past draws (bigger jackpots sell more). Multiply that by the odds and you get the number of division 1 winners to expect. The chance at least one game wins is 1 − e^{−expected winners}. Expected division 1 winners this time: Saturday Lotto 5.27, Oz Lotto 0.54, Powerball 0.19, Weekday Lotto 0.74, Set for Life 0.05. How that has held up in past draws: Saturday Lotto predicted 100% won, 99% actually won (1,550 draws); Oz Lotto predicted 26% won, 24% actually won (1,096 draws); Powerball predicted 29% won, 30% actually won (1,587 draws); Weekday Lotto predicted 55% won, 50% actually won (3,131 draws); Set for Life predicted 4% won, 4% actually won (4,088 draws). Syndicates and System entries mean winners turn up in clumps, so for games that get won often, the real chance can be a few points lower. There's more on what a game is worth on Ticket value.

Every draw on record since 1986

Draws on record

12,595

across 5 games

Prizes paid

$72.9B

all divisions, where prize data exists

Winning entries

2.23B

games that won something

Biggest single prize

$150M

Powerball · 23 May 2024

Saturday Lotto

1986–2026

Draws on record: 2,084
Prizes paid: $29.2B · 1,550 draws
Winning entriesWinners: 902M
DivisionDiv 1 won: 99% of draws
Biggest division 1 prizeTop div 1: $7.333M May 2007

Weekday Lotto

1997–2026

Draws on record: 3,132
Prizes paid: $5.81B · 3,131 draws
Winning entriesWinners: 190M
DivisionDiv 1 won: 50% of draws
Biggest division 1 prizeTop div 1: $8.533M Nov 2009

Oz Lotto

1994–2026

Draws on record: 1,704
Prizes paid: $12.1B · 1,096 draws
Winning entriesWinners: 327M
DivisionDiv 1 won: 24% of draws
Biggest division 1 prizeTop div 1: $100M Feb 2025

Powerball

1996–2026

Draws on record: 1,587
Prizes paid: $23.4B
Winning entriesWinners: 687M
DivisionDiv 1 won: 30% of draws
Biggest division 1 prizeTop div 1: $150M May 2024

Set for Life

2015–2026

Draws on record: 4,088
Prizes paid: $2.37B
Winning entriesWinners: 124M
DivisionDiv 1 won: 4% of draws
Biggest division 1 prizeTop div 1: $5M Oct 2026

Prize totals are national (winners × prize each) and only count draws where prize data exists. Set for Life's division 1 counts its monthly payments at face value. "Biggest" means the most one winning entry got, not the whole pool.

Lotto wins by state

State	Prize money	Share	Winning entries	Division 1 winners	Div 1 per million people
NSW	$2.9B 33.9% · 71.1M entries · 84 div 1	33.9%	71.1M	84	9.9
VIC, TAS & ACT	$2.19B 25.5% · 59.1M entries · 58 div 1	25.5%	59.1M	58	7.2
QLD	$1.72B 20.1% · 47.1M entries · 36 div 1	20.1%	47.1M	36	6.4
WA	$1.07B 12.5% · 28.6M entries · 32 div 1	12.5%	28.6M	32	11
SA	$478.6M 5.6% · 11.8M entries · 16 div 1	5.6%	11.8M	16	8.5
NT	$204.9M 2.4% · 4.46M entries · 6 div 1	2.4%	4.46M	6	23

Based on 707 draws (May 2011 – Oct 2026) where every state's winners were recorded.

How this is worked out

We only use draws where the state counts add up to the national total. Older draws have gaps in the state breakdown, and leaving them out beats undercounting some states. Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT share one lottery operator, so those three are counted together. "Per million people" uses rough current populations (ABS, 2024). Mostly it shows how much each state plays. Luck has little to do with it.

Does any state win more than its ticket sales say it should?

State	Sales share	Expected div 1	Actual div 1	Compared with sales
NSW	32.0%	74	84	+13% 84 won · 74 expected · 32.0% of sales
VIC, TAS & ACT	26.6%	62	58	-6% 58 won · 62 expected · 26.6% of sales
QLD	21.2%	49	36	-27% 36 won · 49 expected · 21.2% of sales
WA	12.9%	30	32	+7% 32 won · 30 expected · 12.9% of sales
SA	5.3%	12	16	+30% 16 won · 12 expected · 5.3% of sales
NT	2.0%	5	6	+29% 6 won · 5 expected · 2.0% of sales

How this is worked out

We work out each state's share of ticket sales from its share of winners in the lower divisions. There are millions of those, so the share is precise. Expected division 1 winners is that share × the game's division 1 winners, added up across games. A bar only gets coloured when the gap is more than 2 standard deviations. The p-value comes from a chi-square test across all states (232 division 1 winners). Small states like the NT swing about a lot because they have so few winners.