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Weekday Windfall: A$1 Million Each, Until a Seventh Winner

How Weekday Windfall works: A$1 million each for up to six Division 1 winners, a shared A$6 million for seven or more, and what Division 6 asks of a game.

Oct 27, 2026 · 9 min read

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Does everyone who matches all six numbers in Australia's Weekday Windfall get A$1 million? According to Lotterywest, yes, for up to six Division 1 winners in the same draw. From a seventh winner on, the payout becomes an equal share of A$6 million, and Lotterywest's own example has seven winners receiving A$857,142 each. Weekday Windfall is the Lotto Bloc's Monday, Wednesday and Friday game, and in Western Australia, Lotterywest sells it as Millionaire Medley.

Five common beliefs about Weekday Windfall, and where the rules differ

"Millionaire Medley is a different lottery"

It's the name Lotterywest sells the game under in WA, and three official documents show how the two names came about.

  • Queensland's regulation, April 2024. The explanatory notes to Queensland's Lotteries Amendment Regulation 2024 describe "the game currently known as Monday and Wednesday Gold Lotto" being rebranded "to Weekday Windfall as the result of commercial decisions by the lottery operator and the Australian Lottery Bloc". The regulation, made on 18 April 2024, added "Weekday Windfall" to the definition of "declared lottery" in Queensland's Lotteries Regulation 2007. The notes also record that interstate regulators, responsible for approving the rebranding in the other jurisdictions where the game was offered, were consulted.

  • Lotterywest's announcement, 9 May 2024. Lotterywest introduced Millionaire Medley as "an update from Monday and Wednesday Lotto, which now features an extra draw on Friday, plus an increase to prizes across each division". The first draw was on Monday 20 May 2024, and the release added: "The mechanics and odds of the game remain the same as Monday and Wednesday Lotto".

  • WA's rules. Part 12 of the Lotteries Commission (Authorised Lotteries) Rules 2016 governs Millionaire Medley, and its rule 150 has the Lotteries Commission contribute a percentage of the subscriptions it receives for each draw to "a combined Lotto Bloc's prize fund".

Lotterywest's guide to its games also lists the states involved in Millionaire Medley as "National", and its odds table matches the Weekday Windfall odds in lottery.fm's game facts, division for division. Lotterywest's price, cut-off times, special events and claim rules are another matter: they apply to its own tickets and are gathered in the WA section at the end.

"Every Division 1 winner gets A$1 million"

Only while there are six or fewer. Lotterywest's page sets out the cases: one winner receives A$1 million, two to six winners each receive A$1 million, and seven or more divide the A$6 million prize pool equally. Rule 154 of WA's rules lays down the same split and pays it from the prize reserve fund, which rule 147 defines as part of the fund maintained by the Lotto Bloc.

The count starts again with every draw. Rule 154 applies "in a particular Millionaire Medley draw", and a Monday winner doesn't take up one of Wednesday's six places.

Before Millionaire Medley, the figure was four. Announcing the new game, Lotterywest spokesperson James Mooney said Monday and Wednesday Lotto had offered a guaranteed A$1 million Division 1 prize for up to four winners, and that "this game change boosts this number up to six".

"An unwon Division 1 rolls over"

When nobody wins Division 1 in a Millionaire Medley draw, WA's rule 154(1) says the prize reserve fund "retains the entire amount allocated to it for that draw". Division 1 doesn't grow the way a jackpot does, because rule 154 sets it on the same terms in every draw.

The reserve can still reach players. Rule 150(4) allows it to be paid out "as additional prize money or promotional prizes", in amounts and draws agreed by the members of the Lotto Bloc. Rule 154(4) also lets the Lotteries Commission declare from time to time that, when Division 1 isn't won, A$1,000,000 goes to the next lower division with a winner or is shared among the Division 2 to 6 pools, with the rest staying in reserve.

WA's rules set no fixed amounts for Divisions 2 to 6. Each division's prize pool is divided equally between its winning games (rule 33(2)), and an unwon division's pool moves to the next lower division with a winner in the same draw, or to the next higher one if no lower division has a winner (rule 155).

"Three winning numbers always win something"

Not in Weekday Windfall. Each draw takes eight balls from a barrel numbered 1 to 45: the first six drawn are the winning numbers and the last two are the supplementary numbers. Each game is six numbers from 1 to 45, and its division depends on how many winning numbers it holds and whether supplementaries come with them.

Division One game needs Odds, one standard game
Division 1 6 winning numbers 1 in 8,145,060
Division 2 5 winning numbers + 1 supplementary 1 in 678,755
Division 3 5 winning numbers 1 in 36,690
Division 4 4 winning numbers 1 in 733
Division 5 3 winning numbers + 1 supplementary 1 in 298
Division 6 1 or 2 winning numbers + 2 supplementaries 1 in 144
Any division Any of the above 1 in 86

The odds are from lottery.fm's Weekday Windfall game facts as of 20 October 2026 and match the table on Lotterywest's Millionaire Medley page, which notes that its figures are rounded approximations for one standard game. The bottom row is Lotterywest's overall figure for winning in any division at all.

Three winning numbers with no supplementary appear nowhere in that table; they need a supplementary alongside them to make Division 5. Division 6 is the odd one. A single winning number is enough there, as long as both supplementaries are on the same game, and rule 152 of WA's rules words it as "any one or 2 winning numbers and 2 supplementary numbers". A game holding both supplementaries but no winning number isn't in any division.

Supplementaries count in Divisions 2, 5 and 6 and nowhere else. Four winning numbers make Division 4 with or without them, and a game holding five winning numbers has only its sixth number left to match a supplementary, which is why Division 2 asks for one rather than two.

"Playing all three draws changes the odds"

Every draw is a fresh event. WA's rule 151 defines a draw as the random selection of eight numbered balls, Monday's result has no bearing on Wednesday's or Friday's, and numbers that have come up often in past draws tell you nothing about the next one. Lotterywest's page says it directly: "If you buy a lottery ticket you are participating in a game of chance. The odds of winning are based on 1 standard game and are the same for each game played."

Lotterywest invites players to "play in one draw, or all three". At 1 in 8,145,060 for Division 1 on one standard game, the top prize is a remote chance whichever days you pick.

Results for each draw, with division-by-division payouts, are listed on lottery.fm's Weekday Windfall page, which describes its results as unofficial.

Buying and claiming through Lotterywest in WA

⚠️ Everything in this section is Lotterywest's or Western Australia's. A Weekday Windfall ticket bought from another operator follows that operator's price, cut-off and claim terms, which aren't covered here.

  • Minimum entry. Lotterywest's guide to its games, effective from 14 September 2026, sets the minimum at three standard games for one draw, for A$2.00, with retailer commission included in its prices.

  • System entries. A WA system entry marks between 4 and 20 numbers (but not 6) and stands for a set of notional games. Rule 153 lets it claim a prize in one division for each of those games, which is how a single system ticket can win in more than one division.

  • One draw, three, or several weeks. Lotterywest offers 1-Day Play and 3-Day Play, and under WA's rules 3-Day Play covers three consecutive draws. The rules also provide for Multiweek entries of 2 to 10 weeks, where offered, covering either three consecutive draws a week or one day only: Monday, Wednesday or Friday.

  • Draw close and draw time. Lotterywest's draw close for Millionaire Medley is 6:00pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and it says draws are available to watch by 7:30pm.

  • Special events. On Double Win Days, prizes in Divisions 2 to 6 "are automatically doubled", says Lotterywest, and Cashcade events guarantee that Divisions 2 to 6 share an extra A$1 million on top of their usual prizes.

  • Claim window. WA's rules end a draw's payout period 12 months after the day its result is made available on Lotterywest's website, and a winning ticket bought in a Lotterywest store has to be presented within that period, at a location that depends on the size of the prize.

  • Validation period. Part 12 starts it at midnight on the day a draw's results are determined and ends it at close of business on the 14th day after (or the business day before, if that day is a public holiday). If one ticket wins Division 1 and other prizes, none of them is paid until after the validation period.

Wherever the ticket was bought, Australian lottery prizes are tax-free, as they aren't assessable income; that's general information, not tax advice.

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Always confirm winning numbers, prize amounts, and deadlines with the official operator before acting on a ticket — the operator's published results are the only ones that count.

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