Pick a game and how many tickets you play per draw. We’ll calculate your real chance of hitting the jackpot, your chance of winning anything at all, and what your play actually costs over time.
Cost per draw
$5.00
Cost per year (104 draws)
$520
Chance of jackpot per draw
3.00e-6%
1 in 33.29M effective odds
Chance of any prize per draw
14.29%
1 in 7.0 effective odds
At 1 ticket per draw, you would need to play for an average of 320.1K years to give yourself a 50/50 shot at a Lotto Maxjackpot — assuming you played every Tuesday and Friday and never missed a draw.
The odds of winning a Lotto Max jackpot on a single play (1 in 33,294,800) compared with everyday rare events: