Saturday Lotto Superdraws: Are They Worth Playing?

By Ryan · Published 18 February 2022 · Updated 7 November 2026

Every Saturday night, the Saturday Lotto numbers are drawn (it's known as TattsLotto or Gold Lotto in some states). Most weeks, the Division 1 prize pool is a few million dollars. But every 5 to 6 weeks, it jumps to $20 million: that's a Superdraw!

Superdraws are hugely popular, but are they actually better to play than a regular draw? We went through all 514 Saturday Lotto draws since 7 January 2017. Let's find out!

1. Superdraws, Megadraws and $10M draws
2. How many more entries are sold?
3. More entries, more winners
4. Was it birthday numbers?
5. So, are Superdraws worth playing?
6. What happens if no one wins?
7. The latest Superdraws

Superdraws, Megadraws and $10M draws

There are actually four kinds of Saturday Lotto draws, depending on the size of the Division 1 prize pool. Here's how often each came up in our data.

Megadraws are the biggest of them all, usually around New Year with $30 million or even $40 million up for grabs. The $10 million draws are newer, they started in 2021.

Whatever the size of the prize pool, the game is exactly the same: 6 winning numbers and 2 supplementary numbers drawn from 45, and the odds of winning Division 1 are always 1 in 8,145,060. Every draw also has the same 6 prize divisions, down to 3 winning numbers. You can play the same System and Pick entries too, see our System and Pick entries guide.

How many more entries are sold?

Unsurprisingly, a bigger prize pool brings out the crowds. Saturday Lotto doesn't publish how many games are played, but we can estimate it from the winners of the most common prize, times its odds. Hundreds of thousands of players win it every draw, and with that many winners, luck barely moves the count.

A Superdraw sells about 2.1 times as many games as a regular draw. At today's price of $0.95 a game, that's around $83M spent on a single Superdraw!

More entries, more winners

More games played means more winners to share Division 1 with. Here's how many winners each draw had.

The most famous Superdraw is no. 4061, on 20 June 2020: a record 27 winners shared the $20M Division 1 pool, taking home $740,741 each. Still not bad for a Saturday night! It's the orange bar in the Superdraws charts.

The smallest Division 1 prize in our data was $255,097, on 19 April 2025, when 20 winners shared a $5M pool.

Was it birthday numbers?

27 winners sounds like a lot, but a Superdraw is also when the most games are played. So how many winners should we expect? If everyone picked their numbers at random, it would only depend on the number of games: 110 million games at odds of 1 in 8,145,060 make about 13.5 winners. The draw of 20 June 2020 had twice as many, and all six of its numbers, 9, 11, 17, 19, 22, 29, were 29 or under. Exactly the kind of numbers people pick from birthdays.

It's not the only one. Here are the draws with the most winners compared with the games played, and the chance of having that many winners by luck alone.

The most crowded of all was the draw of 19 April 2025: 20 winners, when the games played would usually make about 5.3. The chance of that by luck alone is about 1 in 1,304,620. 5 of its 6 numbers were 31 or under, and each winner took home $255,097, instead of around $1M with the usual number of winners.

Birthdays aren't the only popular picks. The draw of 24 August 2024 only had 2 numbers 31 or under, but it had 42, 43, 44 and 45 in a row. Patterns like that are a favourite too, and 14 winners shared the prize where about 4.4 were expected.

On the other hand, most of the draws with the most winners overall, like the New Year Megadraws, simply sold a lot of games: their winners are about what the games played would give. Want to know more about why popular numbers mean smaller prizes? We dug into it in should you pick birthday numbers?

The games played are estimated from the winners of the lowest division, which popular numbers also inflate. If anything, these draws were even more crowded than they look.

So, are Superdraws worth playing?

Here's the thing: a Superdraw game costs exactly the same as a regular one, with exactly the same odds. So the question is whether the bigger prize pool makes up for sharing it with more winners.

To find out, we worked out what Division 1 is worth for every game played, on average. That's the prize pool divided by the odds, allowing for the chance of sharing it with the other winners of that draw.

It's a clear win for Superdraws! Even with 2.1 times as many games played, Division 1 is worth 1.9 times as much per game as in a regular draw. The prize pool is 3.9 times bigger, and that more than makes up for the extra sharing.

So if you only play now and then, Superdraws are the ones to pick! Just keep in mind that with odds of 1 in 8,145,060, it's still a long shot either way.

Curious how Saturday Lotto compares with the other lotteries? We ranked them in which lottery pays back the most, and Saturday Lotto does very well.

What happens if no one wins?

If nobody matches all 6 winning numbers, the Division 1 prize pool "jackpots" to the next draw, which then has an even bigger pool. With so many games played, it hardly ever happens:

• Regular draws: 2 times in 404 draws
• $10M draws: 1 time in 32 draws
• Superdraws: never in 65 draws
• Megadraws: never in 13 draws

The latest Superdraws

Want to try your luck first? Our free Saturday Lotto simulator lets you play thousands of draws with virtual money, with every System and Pick entry. And see which numbers come up the most in our most common Saturday Lotto numbers.

Games played are estimates: the winners of the lowest division, times its odds. It's the prize won most often, by hundreds of thousands of players every draw, so luck barely moves the count.