A syndicate or a group ticket lets you join a group of lottery players that buy shares together using the same numbers. It means you pay less for each chance to win, so for the regular price of a single ticket you can get shares in 50 tickets (for example). Of course, if you share the cost of the tickets then you share the jackpot too, but millions of players think it’s worth sharing to get more chances of winning.

For example, let’s say that 10 people play the US Powerball as a syndicate. Their syndicate buys 1 ticket for the next draw. It wins the jackpot! - R147 million, so each member receives R14.7 million (10 percent) of the prize. And if a player bought 2 shares, they would receive R29.4 million, 3 shares would pay them R43.2 million, etc.

A draw is when the lottery numbers for a game are chosen at random at a certain time on a certain day, repeating each week. Some lotteries feature multiple draws a week while others have just one.

In syndicate games, players share the cost of a ticket equally between them and also share the prize money equally if they win. So, they can buy 1 share in a game, or multiple shares so they get more of the prize money if they do win.

For each game, look to see how many shares are available. The more shares there are, the more chances you have of winning.