Lottario Odds

Lottario draws 6 numbers from 45, which makes 8,145,060 possible combinations. Every figure below is worked out from that, not quoted from elsewhere.

Chance of matching

Main-draw odds only. Bonus numbers, extra games and add-ons alter some tiers, and prize amounts are not listed here because they vary by draw and are shared between winners — the operator's own breakdown is the right source for those.

What 8,145,060 looks like

A number that large is hard to picture, so: buying one line for every draw, twice a week, you would expect to cover all of them in roughly 78,318 years.

This is also why no selection method changes anything. Hot numbers, overdue numbers, birthdays and quick picks all face the same 1 in 8,145,060 per line, because the draw has no way of knowing how the numbers were chosen.