Playing Oz Lotto Online Guide

We’ve put together a handy guide all about Oz Lotto, including how to play Oz Lotto, when to play it, and the usual dividends and odds, plus a brief history and interesting facts of the game. We’re also bringing you a “Where Are They Now?” story of an Oz Lotto winner who became a millionaire in 2009 with a $20,000,000 jackpot. Enjoy the story of this past winner sharing his memories of the win and exactly what he ended up doing with all that money.

History of Oz Lotto

Introduced in 1994, Oz Lotto was Australia’s first national lotto game and has become its most popular thanks to its large jackpots and simple rules. The largest Oz Lotto jackpot to date was $100 million. during the November 2012 draw, nearly 1 in 2 Australian adults purchased a ticket and there were four Division 1 winners sharing over $111 million in prize money.

In 2013, it was estimated that $5,643,952,542.99 – over $5.6 billion – in prize money had been won by Oz Lotto players since the game’s inception, and a total of 448 new millionaires created as a result. There were 120 million Oz Lotto winners over 19 years of the game – that’s more than 5 times the entire population of Australia!

How to Play Oz Lotto?

Oz Lotto is a popular nationwide lottery with a guaranteed minimum Division 1 prize pool of $3 million and a record jackpot of $100 million!

A single game of Oz Lotto requires you to choose 7 numbers from 1 to 47.

Each Tuesday, 10 balls are drawn at random from 47 balls numbered 1 to 47. The first 7 balls are the winning numbers and the last 3 balls are the supplementary numbers. These supplementary numbers are used to determine prizes in Divisions 2, 4 and 7.

Oz Lotto draws close on Tuesdays at 7:25pm AEST/8:25pm AEDT.

How to Win Oz Lotto?

Oz Lotto is drawn on Tuesdays at 8:30pm AEST/9:30pm AEDT. Oz Lotto results will be emailed to you following the draw, or you can check the winning Oz Lotto numbers online.

To win Division 1 you need to match your 7 chosen numbers in a single game with the 7 winning numbers from the draw.

A minimum of 3 winning numbers plus at least 1 supplementary number is necessary to win the lowest Division (7).

All winnings are paid into your account as a tax free lump sum.

Oz Lotto Odds

The chance of winning a Division 1 prize in Oz Lotto is 1 in 62,891,499.

The chance of winning any division prize with a single game in Oz Lotto is 1 in 50.

Oz Lotto Games

Oz Lotto Standard

A standard game refers to each standard line of numbers you select for each lotto game. Each standard game of 7 numbers offers you a chance of winning one prize. You also have the ability to select your own numbers or Quickpick (auto-fill) each game.

Oz Lotto Syndicate

A syndicate ticket allows you to share system entries and prizes with other players. Syndicates allow you to cover more numbers by sharing the cost between the members of a group. Playing more games increases the chance of winning a prize. If the syndicate ticket wins a prize, the total winnings will be divided equally among all of the members of the syndicate.

Oz Lotto System

A system ticket allows you to play more numbers that a standard entry, it gives you an entry covering every combination of the numbers you have chosen. This type of entry will increase your chances of winning by playing a bigger range of number combinations.

Past Oz Lotto Winner Update

As part of Oz Lotto’s 1000^th draw celebrations in 2013, lottery officials contacted on of the 448 millionaires to find out how his life had changed in the years following his big win.

A man from the Townsville suburb of Thuringowa was the lucky winner of $20 million in Oz Lotto draw 812 in September 2009, and the memory of that exciting day still hadn’t faded.

“I couldn’t sleep for two weeks!” he said of the period immediately following news of his windfall. “Then I started giving some of the money to friends and family and it was them who couldn’t sleep because they were dreaming of how they could use it!”

The winner, who has remained anonymous to the general public with the exception of family and close friends, was in his thirties at the time. “We didn’t tell too many people initially. After I gave up my job, I still pretended to go to work for a while because the kids didn’t know we’d won Oz Lotto.”

He planned to pay off his mortgage, take a family holiday overseas, and set up his future. Upon reflection, he acknowledged that he might have caught the travel bug, saying he had “lost count” of how many times he’d been overseas. But it wasn’t all fun and games – the winner made sure to see a financial planner as soon as he received the prize money.

“I tried trading in shares for a while, then gave that away. Now I have a diversified investment portfolio including property.” His advice for what to do if you win lotto: “One – don’t be greedy, two – stop and think carefully about the future of your family, and three – have a plan to grow the asset over time.”

He used some of the prize money to start his own business helping other people manage their assets and grow wealth.

He laughed when lottery officials asked whether he still played Oz Lotto, and admitted to buying a ticket in the historic $100 million jackpot in 2012. Although he didn’t win anything, he said that “it was nice to see a family in Townsville nearby share in that prize.”

Could you be Australia’s next millionaire? Buy your Oz Lotto tickets online now.