United States (multi-state)

Millionaire for Life odds — every division, derived

Every figure on this page is calculated from the game's published rules. The operator's own odds page is linked below as verification — but the working is here, on this page.

The combinatorics

A standard entry picks 5 numbers from 58 plus 1 from a separate pool of 5. The number of possible combinations is:

C(58, 5) = 4,582,116 × C(5, 1) = 22,910,580

Division odds

DivisionMatchWinning combinationsDerived oddsProbabilityPrizeOperator says
Match 5 + Millionaire Ball5 main + 1 supp.11 in 22,910,5804.365e-8$1,000,000 a year for life (min 20 years) or $18 million cash; pari-mutuel if claims exceed the pool1 in 22,910,580
Match 55 main + 0 supp.41 in 5,727,6451.746e-7$100,000 a year for life (min 20 years) or $2.2 million cash1 in 5,727,645
Match 4 + Millionaire Ball4 main + 1 supp.2651 in 86,4551.157e-5$7,500 fixed1 in 86,455
Match 44 main + 0 supp.1,0601 in 21,6144.627e-5$500 fixed1 in 21,614
Match 3 + Millionaire Ball3 main + 1 supp.13,7801 in 1,6630.0601%$250 fixed1 in 1,663
Match 33 main + 0 supp.55,1201 in 4160.2406%$50 fixed1 in 416
Match 2 + Millionaire Ball2 main + 1 supp.234,2601 in 97.81.02%$25 fixed1 in 98
Match 22 main + 0 supp.937,0401 in 24.454.09%$8 fixed1 in 24
Match 1 + Millionaire Ball1 main + 1 supp.1,464,1251 in 15.656.39%$8 fixed1 in 16

"Winning combinations" counts how many of the possible outcomes land in that division. "Operator says" is the operator's published figure — shown so you can check us against them (small differences are their rounding).

Odds of winning any prize

1 in 8.47

Sum of all division probabilities — usually the number the ads quote.

Odds of the top prize

1 in 22,910,580

One standard game. Two games doubles it — and it's still tiny.

How long are these odds? Winning the top prize is about as likely as calling 24.4 coin flips in a row correctly (224.4 22,910,580). If you bought one line every draw, at two draws a week you would expect one top-prize win roughly every 220,294 years.

Sources

Last verified: 2026-08-29