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Your agreement
A plain-English template, not legal advice. Everyone should read it, sign it and keep a copy before the first draw.
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- Maths reviewed by Josh Miller
- Tested by Diana Westfield
A lottery syndicate agreement is one page that saves a friendship. Five colleagues play Lotto together at £2 a week each, nobody writes anything down, and one Saturday the numbers come up while Tom hasn’t paid for three weeks. Does he get a fifth? This free template asks the questions before that happens: fill in the group above and it writes the agreement for you, with a table for everyone to sign. Print it, or save it as a PDF and share it in the group chat.
What goes into a lottery syndicate agreement
Most arguments in syndicates come from the same handful of gaps, so the template covers each one in a sentence or two. The money comes first: what each member pays per draw, how many lines that buys, and where any spare pennies go. With five people at £2 and Lotto lines at £2, you buy five lines a draw with nothing left over. Switch to EuroMillions at £2.50 a line and the same £10 buys four, with £0.50 carried forward.
Then the awkward bits. Late payers: by default, no payment before the draw means no share of it, which is harsh but clear. Small wins: a lot of groups keep wins under £50 to buy extra tickets rather than splitting £30 five ways. Leaving and joining: a new member shares only in draws they paid for, and someone who leaves gets back anything they paid in advance.
Running the syndicate day to day
The single most useful habit has nothing to do with the paperwork. Whoever buys the tickets posts a photo of them before the draw, every time. That one picture answers “were my numbers on?” and “did we actually play this week?”, which are the questions that cause real trouble. A running list of who has paid sits nicely alongside it.
If you win, the CasinoCalcs lottery syndicate calculator splits the prize to the penny, by equal shares or by what each person paid in. The lottery odds calculator shows how much more often a group of five lines hits than a single ticket. It’s five times as often, which is still not very often.
This is a plain-English template, not legal advice. For a big group or a workplace syndicate with money changing hands every week, it’s worth everyone reading it properly and keeping a signed copy.