Lottery Reviews

Eurojackpot Lottery

Eurojackpot was launched as a rival to EuroMillions in March 2012 and is played by 19 nations across Europe. The jackpot starts at €10 million but often rises much higher due to rollovers and is allowed to build to a maximum of €120 million.  Read more

El Gordo de Navidad

El Gordo de Navidad has been running in Spain since 1812, becoming famous for offering a prize pot of over €2 billion - there is a €2.38 billion prize pool for the upcoming 2019 draw. Also known as the Spanish Christmas Lottery, it is held annually on the 22nd December. Large groups of family and friends often club together to buy tickets, known as decimos and billetes. Billetes are full tickets which can be bought for €200, with many players opting to buy a cheaper decimo for €20, a tenth of a full ticket, which means that they will receive a tenth of any prize that it might win.  Read more

Mega Sena

Mega Sena is Brazil’s biggest lottery, raising huge amounts of money every year for educational projects and providing players with huge jackpots too.  Read more

Lotto Max

Canada’s Lotto Max is drawn every Tuesday and Friday night, with ticket holders attempting to match the seven main balls drawn from a possible 50 in order to win the jackpot, which begins at CA$10 million. There is also a Bonus Ball drawn, which boosts the value of certain prizes if it is matched. For each CA$5 play, ticket holders choose one line of numbers and receive another two that are randomly generated.  Read more

Australian Lottery

Australia has a number of different lotteries for you to play, with barely a day going by without the chance to win big money on one of the games. Oz Lotto is drawn on a Tuesday, whilst Powerball is played on a Thursday evening and is the most popular lottery in the country with the biggest prizes. There are also Monday, Wednesday and Saturday Lottos, which all offer the opportunity to become a millionaire.  Read more

El Gordo Spanish Lottery

El Gordo is made up of several big money draws in Spain, including El Gordo Navidad which is famed for its gigantic prize pot, given away to lucky players once a year on the 22nd December. Other annual events include el Nino, which occurs in January and uses a similar system to El Gordo Navidad but with smaller prizes, and a summer draw in July.  Read more

South African Lottery

The South African National Lottery offers a wide variety of draw games, some of which offer uncapped jackpots that have previously reached more than R100 million.  Read more

Irish Lottery

Irish Lotto has become a popular game for players around the world thanks to its combination of multimillion-Euro jackpots and attractive odds of winning when compared to many other big international lottery games.  Read more

Super Lotto Plus

The Super Lotto Plus is a Californian lottery game that has been available to play since its launch in 2002. This game is run by the California lottery and plays out alongside the other lotteries in the state such as the Mega Millions and Fantasy 5. Draws for the Super Lotto Plus take place twice a week every Wednesday and Saturday at 7:57pm PST. One of the best things about the Super Lotto Plus is that in total there are nine prizes tiers available to win and the jackpot is always worth a minimum of $7 million.  Read more

SuperEnalotto Italy

SuperEnalotto is an Italian lottery which has become one of the most popular games in the world since its launch in December 1997. A key factor behind SuperEnalotto’s success is the huge jackpots which are regularly available, while having three draws a week gives players lots of opportunities to win. Draws traditionally take place on a Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8pm local time, and are only occasionally pushed back a day for public holidays.  Read more

Lotto 6/49 Canada

Since its launch in June 1982, Lotto 6/49 has become one of the most popular lottery games played in Canada and was the first national game in the country to allow players to select their own numbers. Canada Lotto 6/49 is operated by the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation but each of the five provincial lottery organizations is individually responsible for running the game within their own territories.  Read more

Mega Millions Lottery

One of the world’s largest lotteries, Mega Millions is played across 45 US states, plus the District of Columbia and US Virgin Islands. The game has produced some of the biggest lottery winners of all time.

Mega Millions was first played in 2002, but the game underwent some big changes in October 2017 to create even larger jackpots.  Read more

Powerball Lottery

Powerball is one of the biggest US lotteries and has created hundreds of multimillionaires since its first draw was held on 22nd April 1992. Since then there have been a number of changes, including the introduction of the Power Play in March 2001. In January 2016, the Powerball jackpot broke all lottery records when it exceeded $1 billion for the first ever time in its history. An incredible $1.58 billion top prize was split among three winning tickets, with Marvin and Mae Acosta from California, Florida's Nickel 95 Trust and Lisa and John Robinson of Tennessee winning $528.8 million each.

With a minimum jackpot of $40 million, a guaranteed $1 million for any player matching five main white balls and a total of nine prize tiers on offer, it’s easy to see why Powerball remains one of the most popular games on offer.

The Powerball game format has changed a number of times over the years. Read more about the Powerball Changes further down the page.  Read more

UK National Lottery

As the UK National Lottery’s flagship game, UK Lotto has captured the hearts of millions of players. It is played every Wednesday and Saturday and there are six different ways to win in every draw, including multimillion-pound jackpots if you match all the main numbers.  Read more