Kentucky lottery player Lori Janes, 28, won $175,000 after taking home the jackpot ticket during a white elephant gift exchange game commonly referred to as dirty Santa or Yankee Swap during her workplace holiday party. Lori hoped she’d end up with $50 TJ Maxx gift card but instead ended up with her fortune after originally purchasing the ticket for only $2!

The Yoeekee Lotto can be an enjoyable way to pass time, but it doesn’t provide a lasting solution for those experiencing homelessness. Even after winning its jackpot prize, its winner noted she still needed help finding housing and medical care, in addition to hoping more warming centers will open in her area.

Sheila Schutte of the Yankee Doodle claims ticket sales kick into overdrive when its jackpot reaches one hundred million dollars, though they could even more so be enhanced through online ticket purchases.

A Yankee bet consists of 11 bets (doubles, trebles and four-fold accumulator). It’s an ideal solution when you know exactly which selections to back for an upcoming fixture but don’t have enough money to cover each individual selection individually. A successful Yankee will bring large gains if all selections win; however it may be riskier as only two winners must be achieved to generate payouts.

Enter your unit stake into the box below to calculate potential returns of a Yankee bet, or use our comprehensive bet calculator.

When placing an each-way yankee bet, the number of bets will double from 11 to 22. When selecting selections to include in an each-way yankee wager, be sure that their place payout exceeds your unit stake by at least equaling or surpassing it.

To calculate the odds for a Yankee bet, add up all the individual bets within it and multiply this total by your stake – our Yankee bet calculator makes this easy, or work it out manually if desired – before adjusting stake according to individual bet odds: doubles/trebles will multiply your unit stake multiple times while fourfold bets multiply threefold.