Before you buy a lottery ticket, you should know what you're up against. Here are the jackpot odds for every major Australian lottery, ranked from easiest to hardest:
| Lottery | Jackpot Odds (per game) | Cost/Game |
|---|---|---|
| Yourtown | 1 in 500,000 | $15.00 |
| Super 66 | 1 in 1 million | $1.15 |
| Saturday Gold Lotto | 1 in 8.1 million | $0.96 |
| Weekday Windfall | 1 in 8.1 million | $0.68 |
| Lucky Lotteries Mega | 1 in 9.5 million | $5.70 |
| Dream Home Art Union | 1 in 14.3 million | $2.00 |
| Lucky Lotteries Super | 1 in 18.4 million | $2.30 |
| Set for Life | 1 in 38.3 million | $0.68 |
| Oz Lotto | 1 in 62.9 million | $1.50 |
| Powerball | 1 in 134.5 million | $1.58 |
Odds per game vs odds per dollar
The table above shows odds per game, but that doesn't account for the different ticket prices. A fairer comparison is odds per dollar spent. If a game costs $0.68 per entry, your dollar buys about 1.5 entries. If it costs $5.70, your dollar buys less than 0.2 entries.
When you adjust for price, the rankings shift. Super 66 at $1.15 per game gives you much better odds per dollar than Yourtown at $15 per ticket, even though Yourtown has the best raw odds.
Better odds don't always mean better value
This is the part most people miss. A lottery with 1 in 500,000 odds sounds fantastic — until you realise the prize is $2.8 million and the ticket costs $15. Meanwhile, a lottery with 1 in 134 million odds might be sitting on a $150 million jackpot at $1.58 per game.
Value depends on the ratio of what you could win to what you spend and how likely you are to win. All three factors matter, and they change every day as jackpots grow and reset.
That's why we built Lotto Logic
Comparing odds alone is misleading. Comparing jackpots alone is misleading. You need to factor in odds, jackpot size, ticket price, expected shares, and other-division returns — all at once, updated daily.
The Lotto Logic leaderboard does exactly that. One number per lottery, updated every morning. If you're buying a ticket anyway, check which one is the smart buy today.