A ready-made prize split for a ₹1000 total collection.
Enter how many tickets you're selling and the price per ticket, and this works out a suggested prize split across the standard Tambola winning categories — Early Five, Top Line, Middle Line, Bottom Line, and Full House by default, with Four Corners and Star Corners added if you choose 6 or 7 prizes to award.
The split isn't arbitrary: Early Five is always the smallest prize and Full House is always the largest, matching how Tambola is conventionally played — Early Five only needs 5 of your 15 numbers and is usually claimed early, while Full House is the grand prize. Full House's share also grows a little as you award more categories, so adding Four Corners or Star Corners doesn't come at Full House's expense.
Every amount is rounded to a clean multiple of 5 wherever possible, since split-second prize money is much easier to hand over in round numbers — the one amount that occasionally isn't perfectly round is whichever prize is currently absorbing the small leftover from rounding everything else, so the total always exactly equals your collection, not approximately.
You can edit any individual prize amount directly, or add your own custom prize (like "Lucky Chair" or a raffle add-on) with its own amount — either way, every other prize automatically rescales so the total still matches your collection exactly, rather than you having to work out the adjustment by hand.
This calculator gets its own game code, shown at the top, which is remembered in your browser so refreshing the page doesn't lose your setup — the same code used by the Tambola Number Caller and Ticket Generator, so a whole evening's tickets, draw, and prize split can all reference one consistent code.
You can also keep up to 3 saved calculations at once — useful for comparing a few different setups, or keeping recent games on hand. Saving a 4th automatically replaces the oldest, with a warning and a suggestion to share it on WhatsApp first, since that replacement can't be undone.
Early Five: first to mark any 5 numbers, anywhere on the ticket. Top/Middle/Bottom Line: all 5 numbers in that specific row. Four Corners: the first and last numbers of the top row plus the first and last numbers of the bottom row (4 numbers total). Star Corners: those same four corners plus the center-most number of the middle row (5 numbers total). Full House: all 15 numbers on the ticket — the grand prize.
That matches how Tambola is conventionally played — Early Five only requires 5 of your ticket’s 15 numbers and is usually won within the first 15-20 numbers called, so it’s traditionally a smaller "warm-up" prize compared to a full line or the full house.
Every prize is rounded to the nearest ₹5 first. Since the total has to exactly equal your collection (not just approximately), whichever prize is currently the largest absorbs whatever small amount is left over after rounding everything else — usually Full House, since it’s always the biggest share.
They automatically rescale proportionally so the total still exactly matches your collection — you don’t need to work out the adjustment yourself. The prize you just edited keeps the exact amount you entered; only the others move.
Yes — use "Add a custom prize" for anything else (a raffle add-on, a sponsor prize, a joke prize). It’s treated the same as any other prize: give it a name and amount, and everything else rescales to make room.
Yes — your game code and prize split are saved in your browser, not on a server, so reopening this page (even after a refresh) picks up right where you left off. It won’t follow you to a different browser or device.
The last 3. Saving a 4th automatically replaces the oldest one — you’ll always get a warning first, with a suggestion to share it on WhatsApp before it’s gone, since there’s no way to get it back afterward.