Brazil
Lucky Quina numbers
Four lines of five numbers from 80 for the Caixa draw. Fewer numbers to match than Mega-Sena, from a much larger pool.
Numbers built from your chart, not a shuffle
Any site can pick random numbers. Weighting the pool by your own Day Master, Life Path and Lo Shu grid needs your birth moment.
What Quina is
| Game | Numbers drawn | Jackpot odds |
|---|---|---|
| Quina | 5 of 1–80 | 1 in 24,040,016 |
Five from 80, drawn six days a week by Caixa. Fewer numbers to match than Mega-Sena but a far larger pool to match them from. There are 24,040,016 ways to choose 5 numbers from 80, and a line covers exactly one of them, which is the whole arithmetic behind the 1 in 24,040,016.
Odds for every tier, not just the top
The top prize is one row of this. The others are the same sum with a smaller match required.
| Result | Odds of exactly this |
|---|---|
| Match 5 | 1 in 24,040,016 |
| Match 4 | 1 in 64,107 |
| Match 3 | 1 in 866 |
| Match 2 | 1 in 35.6 |
The odds are fixed by the format. The payout is not, and in most of these games it moves with ticket sales.
Another draw, same chart
The arithmetic travels. Any of these, or every lucky-number calculator.
Five from eighty
Quina asks for five numbers from a pool of 80, which is the widest spread relative to picks of any game here. Caixa draws it six days a week, so it is Brazil's habit game rather than its event game.
A pool that wide has a specific consequence for hand-picked lines: only 31 of the 80 numbers can be a day of the month, so date-based lines are confined to well under half the board. The section below works out what that does.
Caixa also runs Lotofácil, which sits at the opposite extreme: fifteen picks from twenty-five. Between those two the same bank offers the hardest and the easiest games in this entire list, and sells them side by side at the same counter.
The only edge on this page
None of this makes a draw more likely to go your way. The balls have no memory and no preference. It bears on one thing only: how many other people picked what you picked, and therefore how far a shared prize has to stretch.
Of the 80 main numbers in Quina, 31 could be a day of the month and 49 could not. A slip filled from memory almost always stays under 32, because that is where the calendar stops. Lines built entirely from calendar numbers make up 0.71 per cent of the possible lines, and a far larger share of the tickets people fill in by hand. A line reaching above 31 wins no more often. It is held by fewer people when it does.
These follow from the pool size and nothing else. Treat them as a note on crowding, and treat the reading above as a way to choose rather than a way to predict.