Pick a real lottery or dial in your own format, then let the balls tumble and drop into place. Unbiased, unsentimental, and free of anyone’s lucky numbers.
5 numbers from 1 to 69, plus 1 Powerball from 1 to 26.
Pool of 69 numbers
Every combination in a fair draw has exactly the same chance, so no line is smarter than another. The draw uses your browser’s cryptographic random source with rejection sampling, so each number in the range is equally likely, with no drift toward the low end the way a naive modulo would give you.
These are the chances of matching every number in a single line, for the formats built into the presets.
| Format | Chance of matching everything |
|---|---|
| Powerball, 5 of 69 plus 1 of 26 | 1 in 292,201,338 |
| Mega Millions, 5 of 70 plus 1 of 24 | 1 in 290,472,336 |
| EuroJackpot, 5 of 50 plus 2 of 12 | 1 in 139,838,160 |
| EuroMillions, 5 of 50 plus 2 of 12 | 1 in 139,838,160 |
| UK Lotto, 6 of 59 | 1 in 45,057,474 |
| Lotto (SE), 7 of 35 | 1 in 6,724,520 |
| Keno, 10 of 80 | 1 in 1,646,492,110,120 |
Numbers that large stop carrying meaning, so here is one that does. Playing a single Powerball line every week, the jackpot would take on average around five and a half million years. The Keno figure is for matching all ten, which is why real keno pays out on partial matches instead.
Not because it improves your odds. It cannot, and nothing can. It changes who you share with. People pick birthdays, so the numbers 1 to 31 are heavily over-played, and lines that make a shape on the slip get chosen by thousands of people at once. A line with high numbers and no pattern is worth exactly the same going in and rather more coming out, because fewer people will be holding it.
A lottery is entertainment with a negative expected return, and that is true of every line, every format and every week, no matter how the numbers were chosen. Decide what the evening is worth to you before you buy, and treat anything that comes back as a surprise rather than a plan.
If it stops feeling like entertainment, most operators offer deposit limits and self-exclusion, and national helplines exist in most countries. This page is a random number generator, not advice to play.
Powerball, Mega Millions, EuroJackpot, EuroMillions, UK Lotto, Swedish Lotto and Keno, each with the right bonus ball where the game has one. Anything else goes under Custom, where you set the count, the range and the bonus numbers yourself. Lotteries do change their rules now and then, so check the format against your operator before you buy a ticket.
No, and it should not. Past draws have no effect on future ones, so filtering them out would shrink your options without improving anything. The balls have no memory.
Draw again as many times as you like, but copy each line before you reroll, since nothing is stored between draws.
Neither is luckier, because every combination is equally likely. A random line does tend to be worth more if it wins, simply because fewer other people will have picked the same unremarkable set of numbers.
They are drawn from a separate pool, which is why a game like Powerball has odds so much longer than its main pool alone would suggest. Five numbers from 69 is one in eleven million; adding one ball from a second pool of 26 multiplies that by 26.
Because draws are independent. A number that appeared last week is exactly as likely as any other this week, and streaks in random data are far more common than intuition expects.