Tools & calculators

How big does the Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot have to be before a ticket is a fair bet? See how taxes and jackpot splitting move the line.

How high do jackpots really get, and how long does it take? Probability curves and average time-to-reach, from real jackpot history.

All 75 Texas scratch games ranked by what they return per dollar today — plus why $1 tickets are the worst value on the rack.

Which Idaho scratch games still have their big prizes — and what each one actually returns per dollar today, not at launch.

Your state's own games have far shorter odds than Powerball — mapped, ranked, and computed from every game's published number matrix.

Two separate dials for tonight's draws — what a ticket really returns per dollar after split risk, against how much attention the jackpot is getting. Plus the best value in the country tonight, ranked across every game we can price.

How many people are playing Powerball, Mega Millions and Lotto America — estimated from real winner counts — and the odds a jackpot gets won, or shared, at tonight's size.

Play out thousands of real tickets at a game's actual odds — a big one-time buy, or three lines a week for years — and watch your balance slide.

A heat map of state tax on lottery winnings — see which states don't tax it at all, and how much of a jackpot you'd keep in each.

Enter your numbers and see how they would have done across every draw on record — best match ever, how often each tier hit, and whether they struck the jackpot.

Take the 30-year annuity or the lump sum? The after-tax, present-value comparison — plus the discount rate where they break even.

For "for life" games — what a lifetime of yearly payments is really worth today versus the one-time cash option, by your age.

See the odds of every prize tier to scale — just how far apart "match 3" and the jackpot really are.