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Bahati Keno

Pick up to eight numbers from forty. Ten are drawn.

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Also known as

The same game carries a different name in almost every market, and the app uses your country's:

  • Orire Keno — Nigeria
  • ዕድል Keno — Ethiopia

What Bahati Keno is

Keno is the oldest lottery-style game still played, and the easiest to learn on this list: you choose some numbers, the machine draws ten, and you are paid for how many of yours came up.

Lottra's version uses a 40-number board and lets you pick anywhere from one to eight. The whole round takes about ten seconds.

How to play

  1. Open the game and set your stake using the plus and minus buttons.
  2. Tap between one and eight numbers on the 1–40 grid. Tap again to remove one.
  3. Check the paytable — it updates live to show what your current pick size pays for each number of hits.
  4. Tap Play. Ten balls are drawn one at a time and your matches light up.
  5. Anything you win is added to your balance immediately.

At a glance

Board
1 to 40
You pick
1 to 8 numbers
Drawn
10 numbers
Return to player
80%
Cost
Sweep Stars, earned free

Does picking more numbers improve your odds?

It changes the shape of the game, not its value. Pick one number and you will win often and small. Pick eight and you will almost never hit all eight — but the prize for doing so is enormous.

This is worth stating plainly because most keno guides imply there is a clever pick size. On Lottra there is not, and that is deliberate: every prize is calculated from the same return setting, so a pick of three and a pick of eight both return the same percentage over time. Rarer outcomes pay more precisely because they are rarer.

So choose the pick size that matches how you enjoy playing. If you like frequent small wins, pick two or three. If you would rather chase something large and accept long dry spells, pick seven or eight. Neither is the 'right' answer and neither is quietly worse value than the other.

Worth knowing before you play

Keno has one of the widest prize spreads of any game here, which means long runs of nothing are normal, not a sign something is broken. The eight-number top prize is genuinely rare.

Every random result is sealed before you choose and published afterwards, so it can be checked rather than trusted — see provably fair.

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