Every cent, accounted for.
Office pools fall apart because nobody can prove who paid, what the ticket said, or what it won. Lottery Pool keeps the receipt so the group does not have to trust anyone's memory.
How it works
- One person starts the pool and shares a short code.
- Everyone joins with that code and pays the organiser directly — cash, or whatever app you already use.
- The organiser buys the real ticket and photographs it, so the whole group can see it.
- If it wins, the app splits the prize to the exact cent and shows every share.
What Lottery Pool is not
Lottery Pool does not sell lottery tickets, does not process payments, and never holds anybody's money. Members pay each other directly with whatever app they already use.
The person holding the printed ticket owns it. This app is the group's shared record of what was agreed — it is not a claim on a prize.
Before your first pool
Lottery rules differ by state, so we need to know where you play and that you have read what this app is — and is not.
Why this is asked
What this is. A record of the rules you agreed to, stored with the exact wording you saw and the date you saw it.
Steps. 1 · Pick your state. 2 · Read each line. 3 · Tick the required ones. 4 · Continue.
Status. You only do this once. You can change your state later from the Account tab.
Your pools
Join a pool
New pool
Pick a different date
For a draw further ahead. Past dates and days this game does not draw on are refused.
Already have a list on paper?
What this is. Photograph your handwritten list. The app reads the names and the amounts and fills the pool in for you.
Steps. 1 · Take a photo. 2 · Check what it read — fix anything wrong. 3 · Confirm. Nothing is saved until you do.
Phone numbers are not read. Names and amounts only, and the app does not text anyone on your list. You share the join code yourself.
Uses the pool name, game and draw date above.
Which split should I pick?
What this is. The rule the app uses to divide any winnings between members.
Steps. Pick Evenly when everyone pays the same buy-in. Pick By contribution when people put in different amounts.
Status. You can see the exact split for every member before anybody is paid, and the app proves the shares add back up to the full prize.
Pool
The ticket
The numbers on the ticket
How to type the ticket in — and why it cannot be undone
What this is. The numbers printed on the ticket the captain bought. They are what every result check compares against, and the whole pool can see them.
Steps.
- Hold the ticket, or open the photo above.
- Type one line's numbers, separated however you like.
- Add the bonus ball if the game has one.
- Press Add another line for each extra line on the ticket.
- Check what the app reads back, then save.
Why saving is final. There is no way to edit or delete a saved line — that is deliberate, because the group has to be able to trust that the numbers were not quietly changed after the draw. Read them back before you agree. Saved numbers appear under The ticket above as their own entry, alongside the photo.
Status.
Members
Did this ticket win?
What checking does — and why it never shows an amount
What this is. The app compares every line on this pool's ticket against the published winning numbers for this draw, and records that it did so in the pool history — so nobody has to take anyone's word for the result.
Steps.
- Type the ticket numbers in above, once.
- Wait until after the draw has taken place.
- Press Check this pool against the draw.
- Read what each line matched.
- If a line matched, open the official results, find that tier, and enter the amount under Record a win.
Why there is never a figure. The app tells you what matched and never what it is worth. A tier pays differently by game, by state, by whether a multiplier was bought, and by how many other people won — none of which is in the results feed. An amount we could not stand behind would be divided by the group, and then found out.
Status.
If this ticket wins
Record a win
History
Help
Results
Winning numbers straight from the New York State lottery feed.