Superenalotto

SuperEnalotto is the most popular national lottery game in Italy, and is played by millions of players each and every week. Launched in December 1997 by a private company (Sisal SpA), SuperEnalotto replaced the earlier Enalotto game that had been played since the 1950’s.

SuperEnalotto is a 6 from 90 game that offers huge jackpots every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. All draws are held at 8pm in Italy, but participation in this lottery game is now open to players all over the world, thanks to the ability to buy SuperEnalotto tickets online.

You can take part in Superenalotto by purchasing your tickets online from anywhere in the world. To take part in this hugely popular lottery, click the "play now" button or visit the buy official tickets page.

The Superenalotto result for Thursday 29th July:

• 6
• 7
• 11
• 19
• 34
• 49
• 73

Next Superenalotto Jackpot:
Saturday 31st July €106,700,000

There are several ways to play SuperEnalotto, but the simplest way is to select 6 numbers from the range 1 to 90 for each entry that you want to make. To participate in the SuperEnalotto game you will need to enter two lines of numbers as a minimum, but the low cost of tickets reflects that fact.

When the draw takes place at 8pm on Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday, six main numbers and one ‘Jolly’ number will be selected at random by the SuperEnalotto machine. The Jolly number is very similar to the Bonus Ball that is drawn in the UK Lotto game and also to the Lucky Star numbers that are drawn in the EuroMillions game, and the purpose of the Jolly number is to help players win a bigger consolation prize if the jackpot eludes them.

If no player wins the jackpot then it is rolled over to the jackpot fund for the next SuperEnalotto draw. With 90 balls in play, rollovers – and the high jackpots they help to create – occur regularly.

Originally the SuperEnalotto numbers were generated by taking the first digit of the results drawn by other lottery games held in Bari, Florence, Milan, Naples, Palermo and Rome. However, in July 2009 new rules were introduced so that the numbers could be generated by a lottery machine, which is of course the most common modern method of lottery number selection.

Just over 34.6% of every €1 spent on SuperEnalotto tickets is allocated to the SuperEnalotto prize fund. The Italian Treasury holds around 53.6% of the money raised, 8% goes to lottery retailers and 3.7% goes to Sisal, the company running the lottery.

Because SuperEnalotto is a 6 from 90 game, the odds of winning the jackpot outright can be calculated out at 1 in 622,614,630.

There are five main prize levels, and each of these are known as Divisions, with Division 1 being the jackpot. The requirements for winning prizes in the five divisions, and odds of winning each, are shown in the table below: