LottoWatch - National Lottery High Prizes Notifier

LottoWatch is a simple tool that notifies you when National Lottery prizes become above average. You’ll get reminders after work the day before a big draw, so you never miss out on a great opportunity. By focusing only on decent prizes, you will save money on playing about 40% of the time instead of every time.

Join the Telegram channel to receive high jackpot notifications: https://t.me/lottowatch

Schedule

Runs Monday to Friday at 5pm (Europe/London) — cron: 0 17 * * 1-5, triggered via cron-job.org for reliable scheduling (GitHub Actions cron is best-effort and can be delayed by hours).

Games

Game	Draw Days	Average1	Median1	Max1	Historic Highest	Notifying Condition
EuroMillions	Tuesday, Friday	£69M	£62M	£181M	£195M	Jackpot ≥ £75,000,0002
Lotto	Wednesday, Saturday	£7M	£7M	£15M	£66M	Jackpot ≥ £7,500,0003 Must-be-won draw

Notifiers

Name	When	Output
Console	--test mode	Prints a table to stdout
Telegram	Scheduled runs	Sends a message to the channel

How to Run Locally

Install dependencies:

pip install -e .

Run in test mode — skips the day check and prints to console:

python main.py --test

Footnotes

1. Based on last 52 draws (180 days) as of 31 May 2026. ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. Threshold calibrated to ~40% of draws — 21 of 52. ↩

3. Threshold calibrated to ~38% of draws — 20 of 52. ↩