Singapore TOTO: Odds, Group Prizes, System Entries & Draw Times (2026)

How Singapore TOTO works

TOTO is Singapore Pools’ lotto, and it has run as a 6/49 game since October 2014. You pick six numbers from 1 to 49. At each draw, Singapore Pools draws six winning numbers plus one Additional Number. The Additional Number only matters for Groups 2, 4 and 6, where it acts as a bonus ball.

An Ordinary entry is one line of six numbers for S$1. You can choose the numbers yourself or ask for a random pick. Match three or more of the six and you win a prize. Match all six and you share Group 1, which is never less than S$1,000,000.

There are seven prize groups in total:

• Groups 1–4 split fixed percentages of the draw’s prize pool (38%, 8%, 5.5% and 3%) equally between the winning tickets. If nobody hits Group 1, that money rolls into the next draw.
• Groups 5–7 pay fixed amounts: S$50 for four numbers, S$25 for three plus the Additional Number and S$10 for three numbers.

The full table, with the odds for each group, sits under this guide.

TOTO odds: what S$1 actually buys

The headline number is 1 in 13,983,816 for Group 1. That’s the count of every possible 6-number combination from 49 balls, so one S$1 line is one combination out of nearly 14 million.

The smaller groups are far friendlier. Our own combinatorics put Group 5 (four numbers) at about 1 in 1,083 and Group 7 (three numbers) at about 1 in 61. Add every group together and roughly 1 in 54 Ordinary entries wins something. Most of those wins are the S$10 Group 7, so TOTO is a long-shot game with small consolation prizes, not a way to grind out profit.

System entries: more numbers, more lines

A System entry lets you pick more than six numbers and buys every 6-number combination of them in one go. It doesn’t change the odds of any single line. It just buys more lines, and the cost climbs fast.

The odds column is simple division: lines covered out of 13,983,816. A System 12 is 924 times the chance of an Ordinary entry because it costs 924 times as much.

Worked example: a System 7 that hits four numbers

Say you play a System 7 on 3, 11, 18, 24, 30, 37 and 45 for S$7. Four of your numbers come up (say 3, 18, 30 and 45), and the Additional Number isn’t one of yours.

Your seven lines are every way of dropping one of your seven numbers:

• Drop one of the three losing numbers and the line still holds all four winners. That’s 3 lines × S$50 (Group 5) = S$150.
• Drop one of the four winning numbers and the line holds three winners. That’s 4 lines × S$10 (Group 7) = S$40.

Total: S$190 back on a S$7 entry. The same four numbers on one Ordinary line would have paid S$50.

At the top end, the maths is just as plain. If a S$12 million Group 1 is won by three tickets, each ticket collects S$4 million. The largest Group 1 in Singapore Pools’ published results, S$19,416,913 on 11 Feb 2022, was shared by eight tickets, so each got about S$2.43 million.

TOTO draw times in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines

TOTO draws are on Monday and Thursday at 6:30pm SGT. Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines all run on UTC+8, so the clock reads the same in Kuala Lumpur and Manila. There’s no daylight-saving change to worry about, unlike the US and European draws.

Powerball moves to 11:59am SGT from the Monday 2 Nov 2026 US draw, once the US leaves daylight saving. TOTO’s special draws fall on Fridays, so check Singapore Pools for each one’s schedule. Our lottery draw times in Asia page lists every draw we cover on the same clock.

Hongbao draws and the biggest TOTO prizes

TOTO’s biggest nights are its special Friday draws: the Hongbao draw around Chinese New Year, plus specials in early January and August. These regularly pay a Group 1 of S$12 million or more. Recent examples from Singapore Pools’ official results:

• 7 Feb 2025: S$12.63 million Group 1.
• 27 Feb 2026: S$12.0 million Group 1.
• 11 Feb 2022: S$19,416,913, shared by eight tickets. It’s the largest Group 1 we found in the official results, though Singapore Pools doesn’t label it an all-time record.

Special draws sell far more tickets than ordinary ones, so expect more winners sharing Group 1.

How to play TOTO online from Singapore

Singapore Pools is the only licensed route for TOTO, online or off. Players aged 21 and over can open an account at online.singaporepools.com and buy Ordinary and System entries there, or buy at a Singapore Pools outlet.

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Picking TOTO numbers: what works and what doesn’t

Every TOTO draw is random. The combination 1-2-3-4-5-6 has exactly the same 1 in 13,983,816 chance as any “lucky” set, and past results don’t change the next draw. Our guide to RNG and randomness explains why.

What you can influence is how many people you’d share Group 1 with. Lots of players use birthdays, so numbers from 1 to 31 are crowded. Spreading your picks across the whole 1–49 range doesn’t improve your odds, but it can mean a bigger slice if you do win.

Durian tip: Set a fixed TOTO budget, say S$10 a draw, and pick your format before you buy. Ten Ordinary lines and one System 7 plus three Ordinary lines cost the same but cover your numbers very differently.

TOTO is entertainment, not income. Only play with money you can afford to lose, and see our responsible gambling page if it stops being fun.