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Free Lottery Draw Simulator

A two-drum jackpot draw played for chips that are worth nothing, with the exact worth of your ticket and a button that plays it for fifty years.

Play chips

1,000

No real money, no prizes, nothing to buy.

5 of 69 · 1 of 26

Ticket filled in

Main numbers · 5 of 5 picked

Bonus ball · 11 picked

The draw

Prizes on a 2-chip ticket
MatchPaysOdds, 1 in
5 numbers and the bonus ball150,000,000292,201,338
5 numbers1,000,00011,688,054
4 numbers and the bonus ball50,000913,129
4 numbers15036,525
3 numbers and the bonus ball15014,494
3 numbers8580
2 numbers and the bonus ball8701
1 number and the bonus ball492.0
the bonus ball only438.3
Anything else01.0

Your ticket is filled in. Buy one draw, or play it for years below.

Play this ticket for

2 draws a week, 104 a year, all run at once. This is a projection of the ticket above: it is not paid for from your chips and does not change them.

No long run yet for this ticket. Pick a length to see what it spends and what it returns.

Session coach

Last round

Nothing played yet. After each of your draws the coach says what the round cost and what decided it.

Decide the cost before you start

Gambling is entertainment with a price, like a concert ticket. The useful question is not how much you might win but how much the evening is allowed to cost. Pick that number first, and treat reaching it as the end of the session. You can set one below and the coach will hold you to it.

Next bet

2 chips at a 57.94% house edge: an expected cost of 1.2 chips.

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What this ticket is worth

Ticket price
2
Expected value
0.84
What a ticket returns on average. It loses 1.16.
Return to player
42.06%
The lottery keeps 57.94%. Without the jackpot the return is 16.39%.
Odds of any prize
1 in 24.9
4.02% of draws
Odds of the jackpot
1 in 292,201,338
Average wait for a jackpot
2,809,628 years
At 2 draws a week

Every combination is exactly as likely as every other, so a quick pick and numbers you chose have the same odds, and the numbers drawn last time are as likely as any others next time. The jackpot here is a fixed 150,000,000 chips: it does not roll over. Set a lottery ticket beside casino bets

This session

Single draws bought
0
Chips spent
0
Net chips
0
Expected at a 42.06% return
0

The expected figure is 57.94% of the chips spent on single draws. Long runs are not counted here. A session will almost always land below the expected figure, because most of a ticket's return sits in a jackpot that a session never sees.

Built by Alexander Korsager · last updated October 3, 2026 · corrections

Of the ticket price, returned in prizes
42.06%
Kept by the lottery
57.94%
Returned when the jackpot is left out
16.39%
What this ticket keeps, set against the dearest casino bet in the comparison
2.1×

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A ticket with its whole price worked out

This is a jackpot lottery of the kind sold across the US, modeled on none of them in particular: 5 main numbers from a drum of 69, and one bonus ball from a second drum of 26.

A ticket costs 2 chips. There are 292,201,338 different draws, every one exactly as likely as every other, so no way of choosing numbers is better than another and a quick pick has the same odds as numbers you chose.

One ticket, two drums

5 from 69

714234158

1 from 26

11

Ways to draw 5 from 69
11,238,513
Bonus balls
26
Different draws, all equally likely
292,201,338

The ticket shown is the one the table opens with. It has the same chance as any other.

What is worth learning is the price.

Lotteries return far less than any casino game. This ticket returns 42.06% of what it costs, so the lottery keeps 57.94%. The dearest of the 41 casino bets in this site's house edge comparison, a casino keno ticket, keeps about 27%, and this ticket keeps 2.1 times that. Most of the return is also out of reach: 25.67% of the price comes back through a jackpot that lands 1 in 292,201,338. One draw cannot show any of that, so the table plays your ticket for 1, 10 and 50 years at 2 draws a week and reports what it spent and what came back.

Where a 2-chip ticket goes
Kept by the lottery
57.94%
Comes back through the jackpot
25.67%
Comes back through every other prize
16.39%

The jackpot share is an average over a prize that lands 1 in 292,201,338.

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Rules at this table

The prize table
MatchPrize, in chipsOdds
5 numbers and the bonus ball150,000,0001 in 292,201,338
5 numbers1,000,0001 in 11,688,054
4 numbers and the bonus ball50,0001 in 913,129
4 numbers1501 in 36,525
3 numbers and the bonus ball1501 in 14,494
3 numbers81 in 580
2 numbers and the bonus ball81 in 701
1 number and the bonus ball41 in 92.0
The bonus ball only41 in 38.3

Every prize is a fixed amount of chips.

  • Pick 5 different main numbers from 1 to 69 and one bonus ball from 1 to 26, or take a quick pick.
  • A ticket for one draw costs 2 chips. There is one ticket price and one prize table.
  • Each draw takes 5 balls from the main drum without putting any back, then one ball from the bonus drum. The order the main balls come out in does not matter.
  • Matching all 5 numbers and the bonus ball pays the jackpot of 150,000,000 chips. The jackpot is a fixed amount: it does not roll over, grow, or get split between winners.
  • A prize is the whole payout. The ticket price is not returned on top of it.
  • "Play this ticket for" runs the same ticket at 2 draws a week (104 a year) for 1, 10 and 50 years, all at once. It is a projection: it is not paid for from your chips and does not change them.
  • Your ticket stays filled in for the next draw until you change it.
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    Move through the numbers
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    Pick a number
    Enter
    Buy a draw, when the focus is not on a button

FAQ

Is this lottery simulator played for real money?
No. The table uses play chips that have no value, cannot be bought, and cannot be cashed out or exchanged for anything. If you run out, you are handed another stack for free. There is no account and nothing to download.
What are the odds of winning a lottery jackpot?
For this game, 1 in 292,201,338 on every ticket. That is the number of ways to take 5 balls from 69, which is 11,238,513, multiplied by the 26 bonus balls. At 2 draws a week the average wait for a jackpot is 2,809,628 years, and the chance of one in 50 years of playing every draw is 1 in 56,193. The chance of any prize at all is 1 in 24.9, and most of those prizes are the smallest one, 4 chips.
Do quick picks win less often than numbers you choose?
No. Every one of the 292,201,338 combinations is drawn with the same chance, so a quick pick, a birthday, a pattern on the slip and last week's winning numbers are all priced the same. Past draws do not matter either: the balls go back in the drum, and a number that has not come up for a year is not due. With a real shared jackpot, the only thing your choice can change is how many other people hold the same numbers. This game's jackpot is fixed, so here it changes nothing at all.
How much of a lottery ticket's price comes back in prizes?
At this table, 42.06%. A 2-chip ticket returns 0.84 chips on average and loses 1.16. That average includes the jackpot, which almost nobody sees. Leave the jackpot out and the ticket returns 16.39%, which is closer to what a lifetime of tickets feels like: 50 years of this ticket is 5,200 draws and 10,400 chips spent. Real lotteries differ in the detail, but returning about half of sales in prizes, or less, is ordinary.

How this game works

Each draw takes 5 balls from the numbers 1 to 69 in your browser so that every set is equally likely, then one bonus ball from 1 to 26. The draw does not depend on your ticket, your results or any earlier draw. A quick pick is made the same way.

The chance of matching exactly m main numbers is C(5, m) × C(64, 5 − m) / C(69, 5). The bonus ball matches 1 time in 26, independently. Of the 292,201,338 possible draws, 11,750,538 win a prize and 280,450,800 win nothing.

The return to player is each prize multiplied by the number of draws that win it, added up, and divided by the price of a ticket on every draw. It comes to 42.06%. Nothing in that figure is simulated: the tests recompute it with exact whole-number arithmetic, and separately count every one of the 11,238,513 possible main draws against a ticket to confirm the number of ways to match.

The prize table is this site's own, set so that the return sits where a lottery's does. It is not any lottery's published table. 5 numbers pays 1,000,000 chips and the jackpot is fixed at 150,000,000.

A long run draws 104 times for each year, one after another, and adds up the prizes. It is a simulation of that one run, not an average, so two runs of the same ticket differ. The average wait for a jackpot is the number of possible draws divided by 104 draws a year.

Limits

  • A real jackpot rolls over when nobody wins it and is shared when several tickets do, so its value changes from draw to draw. This one is fixed, which is what lets the return be a single number.
  • Real prizes are taxed, and a real jackpot is usually quoted as an annuity worth more than its cash value. Neither is modeled here.
  • Prize multipliers, extra draws and second-chance games are not offered. There is one ticket and one prize table.
  • The largest prizes are so rare that no run here will show them at their true frequency. A run without them returns close to 16.39%, not 42.06%.
  • Play chips do not feel like money. A year of tickets that return almost nothing is easier to watch here than to pay for.

This is a practice game for adults. It has no real-money play and links to none. A lottery ticket bought with money returns far less than any casino bet: 42.06% at this table, and 16.39% without a jackpot that lands 1 in 292,201,338. No way of choosing numbers changes that.

Gambling can cause serious harm. The National Problem Gambling Helpline is free, confidential and open 24/7, call or text 1-800-MY-RESET (1-800-697-3738), or chat at ncpgambling.org/chat.

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