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What years of tickets really cost

Set your habit and the game’s numbers. We run it across 1,000 simulated lifetimes and show what usually happens.

Tickets bought–

Money spent–

Expected prizes back–

Expected loss–

Chance of ever hitting the top prize–

Lifetimes that ended in profit–

Typical (median) result–

Taxes on prizes are not deducted here, so real results are worse. Default figures are illustrative assumptions.

Why the median matters

An “average” result is pulled up by the rare lifetime that hits a jackpot. The median shows what happens to a typical player: in almost every simulated life, the money spent is gone and only small prizes come back. If a habit like this worries you, the self-check is private and takes two minutes.