What are the Keno Spots in the Australian Keno Lottery?

 Keno spot wins are frequent and lately a Cloncurry man has relived the exciting moment he witnessed his eight Keno numbers appear on the Keno screen, winning him more than $56,000. The western Queensland player held a Keno Classic 8 Spot winning entry in game 676 on Saturday 18 July 2020 and took home $56,224.60. The winning Keno Classic 8 Spot entry was purchased at Central Hotel, 46 Scarr Street, Cloncurry.

Another winner played Mega Millions 8 Spot and had a great win. This win came from Townsville man. The North Queensland player held a Keno Mega Millions 8 Spot winning entry in game 009 on Saturday 11 July 2020 and took home $89,697.90. The winning Keno Mega Millions 8 Spot entry was purchased at Dalrymple Hotel, 310 Bayswater Road, Garbutt.

The Keno Spots play a significant role in Keno Lottery game in Australia. Keno spots actually let you decide how many numbers you would like to play like Keno 1 Spot, 2 Spot, 3 Spot, 4 Spot, 5 Spot and 6 Spot The first thing you need to do is decide how many numbers you’d like to play.

Here you have lots of options, with different prizes depending on the amount of numbers you play.  

For Keno 1 Spot, 2 Spot, 3 Spot, 4 Spot, 5 Spot and 6 Spot games (where you’re looking to match 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 numbers respectively), there are set guaranteed prizes.   

This means they are different to 7 Spot, 8 Spot, 9 Spot and 10 Spot games, which offer jackpot prizes that climb higher after each draw if they’re not won. 

The prizes you can win playing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 Spots with Keno Classic

For a regular game of $1 Keno Classic, if you’ve chosen to play a 1 Spot entry, all you need to do is match the one number on your ticket to any of the 20 drawn during the draw and you’ll score yourself $3. 

If you’ve got two favourite numbers, then a 2 Spot might suit you. If you match these two numbers, you’ve won $12. 

If you match all three numbers on your 3 Spot entry, consider dinner covered as you’ve just scored yourself $44.

With a 4 Spot entry, $120 is the top prize if you match all four numbers on your ticket.  

The prize jumps to $640 if you marked five numbers and see them all appear in the game draw.  

Keno Spot and the Payouts

Keno payouts are based on how many numbers the player chooses and how many of those numbers are “hit”, multiplied by the proportion of the player’s original wager to the “base rate” of the paytable. Typically, the more numbers a player chooses and the more numbers hit, the greater the payout, although some paytables pay for hitting a lesser number of spots. For example, it is not uncommon to see casinos paying $500 or even $1,000 for a “catch” of 0 out of 20 on a 20 spot ticket with a $5.00 wager. Payouts vary widely by casino. Most casinos allow paytable wagers of 1 through 20 numbers, but some limit the choice to only 1 through 10, 12, and 15 numbers, or “spots” as the numbers selected are known.

The probability of a player hitting all 20 numbers on a 20 spot ticket is 1 in 3,535,316,142,212,174,320.

Even though it is virtually impossible to hit all 20 numbers on a 20 spot ticket, the same player would typically also get paid for hitting “catches” 0, 1, 2, 3, and 7 through 19 out of 20, often with the 17 through 19 catches paying the same as the solid 20 hit.

Some of the other paying “catches” on a 20 spot ticket or any other ticket with high “solid catch” odds are in reality very possible to hit:

Hits	Probability
0	1 in 843.380
1	1 in 86.446
2	1 in 20.115
3	1 in 8.009
4	1 in 4.877
5	1 in 4.287
6	1 in 5.258
7	1 in 8.826
8	1 in 20.055
9	1 in 61.420
10	1 in 253.801
11	1 in 1,423.822
12	1 in 10,968.701
13	1 in 118,084.920
14	1 in 1,821,881.628
15	1 in 41,751,453.986
16	1 in 1,496,372,110.872
17	1 in 90,624,035,964.712
18	1 in 10,512,388,171,906.553
19	1 in 2,946,096,785,176,811.500
20	1 in 3,535,316,142,212,174,320.000

Probabilities change significantly based on the number of spots that are picked on each ticket.

What are the prizes you can win playing the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 Spot with Keno Mega Millions?

With Keno Mega Millions, each game costs $2 but your entry and prize gets supercharged.   

If you play and match one number on a 1 Spot entry, you’ll have an extra $6 in your pocket.   

With a 2 Spot entry, if the two numbers on your entry appear on the Keno screen, you’ve scored $25.  

Match all three numbers on your 3 Spot entry and you’re definitely shouting your friends’ dinner with your $90 prize.  

If you’re playing a 4 Spot and you cross out all four of the numbers on your entry, you’re walking away with $260. 

With a spare $1,300, you might be booking yourself a holiday – that’s the top prize if you play a Keno Mega Millions 5 Spot entry and match all five numbers.  

Also you could really go all out if you play a 6 Spot and match all six numbers as there are plenty of ways to enjoy $3,800.  

Just like Keno Classic, there are many more Keno Mega Millions’ prizes to be won if you don’t match all the numbers on your entry but do see a few appear on the Keno screen.  

Remember, while these are the top prizes, there are plenty of other prizes to be won if you don’t match all the numbers on your ticket, but do manage to cross off a few!  

To play Keno you need to visit the TAB Keno site in Australia or ask for keno ticket at your nearest lottery retailer.