International Lottery Results

Yes. Australians cannot buy an official ticket in a foreign lottery directly, but they can legally enter matched draws through an Australian licensed operator. The six games on this page are sold that way by The Lottery Office, which holds an Australian licence.

An Australian licensed operator that conducts its own lotteries matched to overseas draws, under Northern Territory licence IGL1001. You are not buying a foreign ticket: you are entering an Australian lottery conducted by them, and they buy a matching ticket in the overseas draw. We are not the operator, we do not sell entries, and we earn nothing from them today.

Neither. It is a real ticket, but not the overseas one. You buy a ticket in an Australian lottery conducted by The Lottery Office under Northern Territory licence IGL1001, and the operator then buys a matching ticket in the overseas draw so it can pay out. Their account terms are explicit that the overseas ticket stays theirs: you will not own any Foreign Lottery Ticket and will make no claim in relation to the same. So it is not a bet on the result and it is not an insurance policy. Read their terms and product disclosure statement for exactly what you are buying before you enter.

No Australian tax on the prize: The Lottery Office states there are no Australian taxes payable on winnings from their lotteries, which sits with the ATO treating an ordinary lottery prize as a windfall rather than income. Source country tax is the part that catches people. Their terms name USA Power Lotto and USA Mega Lotto prizes of USD$1,000 or more, and Italian Super Jackpot over €500, as subject to tax, deducted before they pay you. For the US games their FAQ states 24% federal plus a state tax of up to 8%. You may also see 30% quoted for an Australian winning a US prize: that is the rate for a foreign claimant under US sections 1441 and 1442, with no treaty relief for Australia, while 24% is the rate for a US person under section 3402(q). The two regimes are mutually exclusive and which one a prize meets depends on who claims it in the United States and in what capacity, which the operator does not publish. So we do not quote you a rate. Read their terms and product disclosure statement for the game you played, and check your own position with the ATO.

Every date and time on this page is Australian eastern time, which is why the dates can look a day ahead of the overseas one. A Tuesday night US Powerball draw appears here as Wednesday, and a Saturday night EuroMillions draw appears as Sunday.

Each card shows a live countdown to its own close. Entries close before the overseas draw, not after it, and the cut-off differs per game. Where a game's close schedule is not confirmed, the card says so rather than showing a clock we cannot stand behind.

Yes. Every jackpot on this page is the Australian dollar figure the operator advertises, not the overseas currency amount converted by us. It moves when they move it, three times a day.

It is the count The Lottery Office publishes for that draw, and it is worth knowing exactly what it counts. Their own footnote says the winner count for each prize division combines their winners with the winners of the overseas lottery, in which they buy matching tickets. So three winners means three tickets took Division 1 across both, not that three Australians did, and nothing separates the two. We show it anyway, because whether the top division went off and how many shared it is the thing a reader came to find out, and where those people live does not change the answer. UK Lotto carries no count at all: it draws twice a night and the operator publishes one division table for the night, with nothing saying which round it describes, so there is no honest way to attach it. The tables are on The Lottery Office's own results pages, game by game.