sa Daily Lotto

Daily Lotto is a South African lottery and Players must be 18 years and older to play Daily Lotto.

Tickets may be bought in person at approved retailers, through participating banks in South Africa or may be bought online through The National Lottery website. The official lottery website and online banking apps ensures players can bet on Daily Lotto from anywhere in the world.

Banks that have partnered with The National Lottery to give you easy access to Daily Lotto from a banking app or ATM are FNB, Nedbank, ABSA and Standard Bank.

To register to play online on The National Lottery website, players must be residents of South Africa and have an official South African ID.

You can legally play Daily Lotto if you are a foreigner but your only option is to buy a lottery ticket at a lottery retail outlet.  To bet online through the official Ithuba National Lottery website, you register for a free account and need to supply a valid South African identity number.

Bear in mind that prize money for South African lotteries is only paid into South African bank accounts. You are required to present proof that the bank account where the Daily Lotto prize money will be deposited is your own personal bank account. To have your winnings paid out, you need to have a valid passport and a valid entry visa.

The other option is to play Daily Lotto on an online lottery site such as Lottoland that places a bet on your behalf and guarantees to pay out any winnings. Prize winnings are paid directly into your online account which you transfer to your personal account.

5 matched numbers from a pool of 1 to 36.

The Daily Lotto jackpot is generated from a portion of the day’s ticket sales and if there is no jackpot winner, the cash prize is rolled down and shared by players with the next highest number of matches. This is different to other lottery jackpots such as Powerball that build up over the week and roll over if there is no winner.

Daily Lotto pays out after each draw and the jackpot is not reserved solely for a match of 5 numbers. A ticket holder with a match of 4 numbers can still walk away with a Daily Lotto cash prize. On the rare occurrence that there are no winners in the second prize division, the jackpot rolls down to the third prize division.

The exact amount you can win on a prize tier depends on how many players you have to share the jackpot winnings with on the day.

One reason Daily Lotto is so popular is because it’s so easy to play. The lottery game uses the latest digital technology to make it fast and convenient for players to place bets. This includes online betting and betting using a banking app and ATM.

The easiest way to bet on Daily Lotto is to use Ithuba’s website. Once you’ve selected Daily Lotto as the game you want to play, deposit the price of a ticket into your personal lottery wallet and use the online dashboard to select the numbers you wish to play.

Betting online means you never lose your tickets and you can play from anywhere in South Africa, and the world for that matter.

Going one step further, Ithuba has partnered with the leading banks in South Africa to give its Daily Lotto players easy access to the game. You can access the Daily Lotto from the banking app and transfer funds electronically from your bank account. South African banks that have partnered with Ithuba include FNB, Absa, Nedbank and Standard Bank.

Daily Lotto draws take place every evening at 21h00 and as long as you place your bet 30 minutes before the draw time, you are ‘in it to win it’.

Daily Lotto is drawn every evening in South Africa at 21h00 South Africa Standard Time (SAST).

You can buy a Daily Lotto ticket online and at a retail outlet up to 20h30.

The only day of the year that Daily Lotto is not drawn is 25 December (Christmas Day).

As at March 2020

The minimum bet for a Daily Lotto ticket is R3.

You can bet up to 10 consecutive draws in advance by marking the relevant box in the Multi-Draw section on the betting slip.

The maximum you can play per betting slip is R150. You can play multiple betting slips in the same draw.

The average daily jackpot winnings is R100 000 but the bonanza jackpot differs each day because it depends on player participation and revenue generated in ticket sales.

In 2019, one lucky Daily Lotto player won R413 363. This gives you an idea of just how much money you could win if you correctly match all 5 numbers on the Daily Lotto draw.

Lottery winnings are not taxed in South Africa. The only exception is if you are a professional gambler and it is treated as personal income.

Any prize money paid out to you when you bet and win on Daily Lotto is paid out to you in full (100%). National Lottery winnings are regarded as capital earnings in South Africa and are not included in an individual’s taxable income.

A player has 365 days from the date of the winning draw to claim his or her cash prize.

Daily Lotto is unique because the jackpot does not rollover to the next draw, it rolls down to players that matched fewer numbers. This is because all the Daily Lotto prize money must be one on the day of the draw.

If no-one matches all 5 numbers to win the jackpot, the cash prize rolls down to the second prize tier and is shared by all players that match 4 numbers.

If for some wild reason, there are no players in the second tier (4 matched numbers), the Daily Lotto rolls down further to the third tier and is shared by players that matched 3 numbers.

The Daily Lotto only stops rolling down if there are no prize winners in the fourth tier which is the lowest tier. In this case, the money is added to the jackpot draw that takes place the next day.

Daily Lotto generates money for the cash prizes from the number of tickets sold for a draw. The value of the cash prizes paid out depends on how many tickets are sold on that day and how many winners there are. The prize pool is generated from 50% of the money spent on tickets for each draw.

Remember, the Daily Lotto jackpot rolls down and not over so prize winnings are shared between winning players in the second prize division if there is no jackpot winner in the first prize division.

Ithuba National Lottery is a privately-owned company is South Africa that was awarded the third license to operate the national. Ithuba National Lottery is mandated to raise money from revenue generated through its gambling operations for charitable causes.