For many of us, winning the lotto and becoming a millionaire overnight is a pipe dream.
But it’s not a dream for the lucky person that won $5.6m after placing a $1 bet.
Chai Chee Prime Supermarket
The winning numbers were 8, 15, 22, 26, 34, and 45, plus an extra 32. The lucky winner received a QuickPick Ordinary Entry ticket, which means they gambled on a set of random, system-generated numbers.
The lucky winner takes home $5,675,646. A lone winner!
Not everyone can be so lucky
Previously a man invested about a thousand dollars into TOTO but he won next to nothing.
The chances of winning the Toto Jackpot (Group 1) is as low as almost 1 in 14 million, which means that it is actually easier to get struck by lightning (1 in 500,000) and easier to get shot by a gun in Singapore (1 in 1,000,000), even if it seems almost impossible to be shot by a gun here.
Singapore Pools have created this table to show the odds of winning the different Toto prize groups.
Toto statistics and draw history
On the Singapore Pools website, there are many tools that are provided to help Toto punters make an informed decision before placing their bets.
To start off, there is a Toto winning prize calculator for punters to calculate how much are their winnings in the even where the numbers that they bought matches 3 or more for the draw itself.
You can also check the hit rate history of the Toto numbers to see which numbers are drawn most frequently to increase your chances of winning the jackpot.
For the more superstitious punters, there is also information provided on which outlets generates the highest amount of Group 1 and Group 2 winning tickets.
There is also a page where the top 20 jackpot prizes and their winning shares are shown, to allow to people to see and dream that maybe one day their statistics will be there.