what just happened..

I think I'll look in the NRaas Retuner mod someday to see if I can change the probability of winning.

Then maybe I'd change the chance of winning § 50,000 to 3.0, § 100,000 to 1 and § 1,000,000 to 0.01

There's a chart on the Sims Wiki as to how prizes are weighted. Is your sim lucky?

Money making is so easy in TS3 that I don't touch that little game. :^D (It's more fairly weighted in TS4, you almost never win)

My sim visited the city hall in Oasis Landing to steal the record of the past lotto. He wanted to purchase the Prosper Room Lounge for his Lifetime wish. He got the positive moodlet about the lotto, and purchased 5 tickets of lotto in Bridgeport. Then finally! he won the lotto..!! …..won about 52,000 simoleons… He was able to buy only Waylon’s bar.. includes his whole housefunds. He had about 70k household funds. He made this funds from working as a mixologist. I expected the 1 million but hard luck…now I’m jealous. :D


https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzh_-6xowh4/YN1laKYwVeI/AAAAAAAADlE/PlwxmfDOPJUnyekPguoVVTNpQCateW0QwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/lottery%2Bprize.png
Now I understand why my sim got only this prize from stealing the record of the past lottery in the future to see the chart @InfraGreen shows. My sim's advanced technology skill was only level 2 with no lucky trait. LOL