https://perthirtysix.com/tool/lottery-simulator

  * Mega millions
  * Powerball
  * MegaBucks Plus
  * Lotto America
  * Custom

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Lottery Simulator

Interactively explore lottery probabilities and simulate thousands of
tickets in seconds

Shri Khalpada

Shri Khalpada

May 9, 2023
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Every so often, a lottery jackpot will get so high that I'll hear
about it on the news or from a friend. When this happens, I immediate
start wondering about two things: what I would do with hundreds of
millions of dollars and what the odds of winning really are.

While major lotteries publish some of this information, I wanted to
build something that would make it easier to play around with the
data in a more exploratory way. With that, here is the PerThirtySix
Lottery Simulator!

This tool is broken up into two sections: Setup and Simulation. The
Setup section lets explore probabilities for an existing American
lottery or for your own lottery with custom rules. The Simulation
section lets you pick some numbers and play up to thousands of
tickets per second, and visualizes the returns for you. Note that
this tool makes some simplifying assumptions, like that there's only
one jackpot winner and that taxes are ignored.

1) Setup
You can set up the rules for an existing lottery system or for your
own lottery with custom rules.
Lottery:
(*)Mega Millions( )Powerball( )MegaBucks Plus( )Lotto America( )
Custom
Lottery:
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Rules
Select  5  numbers from  1  to  70 
and one bonus number from 1 to  25 
Ticket
Ticket Cost:  $2 
Breakeven Probability:  4.2% 
[?][?][?][?][?] | [?] $330,000,000 * 1 in 302.6M odds (0.0%)
[?][?][?][?][?] |  $1,000,000 1 in 12.6M odds (0.0%)
[?][?][?][?] | [?] $10,000 1 in 931.0K odds (0.0%)
[?][?][?][?] |  $500 1 in 38.8K odds (0.0%)
[?][?][?] | [?] $200 1 in 14.5K odds (0.0%)
[?][?][?] |  $10 1 in 606.1 odds (0.2%)
[?][?] | [?] $10 1 in 692.7 odds (0.1%)
[?][?] |  $0 1 in 28.9 odds (3.5%)
[?] | [?] $4 1 in 89.4 odds (1.1%)
[?] |  $0 1 in 3.7 odds (26.9%)
 | [?] $2 1 in 36.6 odds (2.7%)
 |  $0 1 in 1.5 odds (65.5%)
* Jackpot value roughly estimated based on recent historical data.
You can use the "Custom" option to set your own payout values.
(*)Linear( )Logarithmic
2) Simulation
Once you're done setting up the rules above and picking your numbers,
hit Start below!
Start
Simulation Speed:
( )Slowest( )Slow(*)Medium( )Fast( )Turbo
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( )Pick your own numbers(*)Pick random numbers
[*]Show Animation
(*)Linear( )Logarithmic

We're just getting started.

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