How this page decides what counts as big
One line, at $100 million, and it applies to every game equally. Nationality decides nothing here: if an Australian jackpot crosses it, that game sits at the top of this page beside the overseas ones. Today none of the four Australian games are close, which is a fact about this week rather than a rule about which games qualify.
The comparison is made in Australian dollars, because that is what an Australian would be playing for. The Lottery Office converts and rounds the overseas figures itself and we publish the figure it publishes, so an overseas game can cross the line on an exchange rate alone without the jackpot in its home country changing at all. That is a real limitation of comparing prizes across currencies and it is worth knowing before reading much into a figure that has just crept over.
Nothing here is stored as prose. The overseas figures and every close schedule come from the same data that drives the jackpots page, the four Australian figures come from the home page ticker that owns them, and each countdown is worked out in your browser, so it stays right to the minute even if our nightly job misses a night.
A game shows as not published when the operator has not set a figure yet. That happens to an Australian game the week after its jackpot is won, and saying so is more honest than printing the amount somebody just took home as though it were the next prize.
What this page is not
It is not a tip sheet. A bigger jackpot does not make a game easier to win, and on the whole it makes it harder: the games carrying the largest prizes are the ones with the longest odds, which is why their jackpots roll so far in the first place. The odds page ranks every game on this site by the real chance of taking the top division, and that ranking does not move when a jackpot does.
Frequently asked questions
Where do these jackpot figures come from?
The overseas ones from The Lottery Office's own advertised amounts for its matched lotteries, and the Australian ones from The Lott's published next-jackpot figures, both stored in our own data and refreshed by a scheduled job. We are not the operator and we do not sell entries. Always confirm a figure on the operator's own site before acting on it.
Why $100 million?
It is a round line that marks the point where a jackpot stops being an ordinary week and starts being the reason people who never play buy a ticket. It is a threshold for what this page leads with, not a claim about value: the odds of a game do not move when its jackpot does.
Why is everything in Australian dollars?
Because that is what an Australian would be playing for. For the overseas games the operator converts and rounds the source currency itself, and we publish the figure it publishes rather than doing our own conversion.
Does a bigger jackpot mean better value?
Not on its own. The prize is only half of it: the odds of the top division are fixed by each game's format and do not change when a jackpot rolls. A larger prize on longer odds can be worse value than a smaller one on shorter odds.
Do you sell tickets?
No. This is an independent information site with no affiliation with any lottery operator. Entries are bought from the operator, never from us.