Australian Lotteries – Buying Lotto Tickets Online

The Lotto

Run by Tattersall’s since 1972, the Lotto draws take place on Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays. The big difference between them is that the Saturday one follows the pari-mutuel format. Where the prizes on offer, including the top prize, are proportional to the number of entries.

The Monday and Wednesday draw, in contrast, guarantee a prize of 1 million AUD to anyone getting all six numbers, up to four people. Should more than four people get all six, that 4 million AUD is shared equally among them.

In all three draws, players need to select six numbers from 45. After the six numbers, an additional two known as the ‘supplementary balls’ are drawn. There are six tiers of prizes depending on the number of regular balls and supplementary balls you get.

Oz Lotto

In 1994 it became the first fully national lottery game because up until then, they were just done at State level.

Originally it was a case of picking six numbers from 45 but then an extra number was added to make it harder to win the top prize. Although in the process they also created two extra tiers of prizes to make up for it.

Draws take place at 8.30 pm AEST. And if no-one gets all seven numbers, the Jackpot rolls over to the following week and that will continue until it’s finally won. That explains why the amount on offer can sometimes exceed the 100 million AUD. The game offers a guaranteed prize of 2 million AUD, though the actual amount is almost always superior to that.

Powerball

Two years after the Oz Lotto began. Tattersall’s started the Australian Powerball. This was specifically designed to give Aussie players a chance to win prizes far greater than what else was up for grabs.

The format is quite different from most of the others. Players must select seven numbers from 1 to 35, plus an additional number from 1 to 20, known as the Powerball.

There are nine tiers of prizes. These depend on how many of the seven numbers you got right and whether they also included getting the Powerball number.

The Jackpot can roll over up to 25 times but after that 25th time, any additional money goes towards those who won at the second-highest tier. It takes place every Thursday at 7.30 pm AEST.

Super 66

This plays in all Australian states, bar New South Wales.

It takes place immediately after the main Saturday Lotto draw at 7.30 pm AEST and there are two ways that players can take part.

The first is to just buy a separate ticket for it which costs 1.10AUD (1.00 AUD in Western Australia). The second is to just tick the ‘Super 66’ box on any of the tickets for Saturday Lotto, Powerball or Oz Lotto.

A Super 66 ticket consists of six numbers between 0 and 9. If you get the first or last numbers in the correct order, you win the minimum prize. After that, the more numbers you get in the right order, the more you win, with prizes spread across five different tiers. The guaranteed prize for matching all six balls is 16,666 AUD.