OKURUKIGANAI ("No Intention of Winning Big") is an entertainment app that hilariously expresses just how impossible it is to win the lottery.
[Lottery Gacha]
Tap to draw. That's it. The app uses real lottery probability tables to determine results. You'll almost certainly lose - but on extremely rare occasions, you might actually win. Even then, the app needles you with self-deprecating quips like "the bank's gonna ask a lot of questions."
There's also an 8% chance of a cruel fake-out: confetti flies, your heart races... then "Just kidding." A beautifully devastating experience. While drawing, four slot digits spin and stop sequentially for extra suspense.
Three persistent counters keep the joke going: a draw count, a "Total Winnings" tracker for your (improbable) cumulative take, and a "Could have saved" tracker that quietly tallies every ¥300 ticket as money you wouldn't have lost. All three are editable manually so you can seed the app with your real-world lottery spending if you dare.
[Milestone Overlays]
The first time the "Could have saved" counter crosses a threshold (lunch, hot spring, latest iPhone, Hawaii, luxury watch, new car, apartment down payment), a sarcastic celebration overlay congratulates you on the milestone you didn't reach. Example: hit ¥300,000 and the app cheers "You could have flown to Hawaii."
[Tempted? Button]
Press the "Tempted?" chip on the draw tab the moment you crave a real lottery ticket. The app responds with one of twelve sarcastic talk-down lines designed to suppress the urge - "Take a deep breath. Breathing is free." or "Lightning is more realistic." No external links.
[Watch an Ad: 10 Draws]
Watch an ad to the end to draw 10 tickets at once. All ten count toward "Could have saved", and they will almost all lose.
[What You Could Have Done]
Once your cumulative spend is above zero, a gold pill appears. Tap it to see exactly how many lunches, iPhones, Hawaii trips, or apartment down payments your wasted money could have bought.
[Days I Didn't Buy]
A new "Skipped" tab. On any day you resist buying a ticket, tap "I didn't buy a ticket today" to log ¥300 (one Year-End Jumbo ticket) as money kept - once per day. Track money kept, days skipped, and your current and best streaks. The app tells you what you've protected on the same lunch-to-condo scale.
Every log comes with a sarcastic pat on the back like "¥300 has been wired to your future self." Hit 1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60, 100, 200, or 365 logged days to earn titles such as "Restraint Apprentice," "One-Week Sage," "Understands Expected Value," and "Lottery Graduate," complete with a celebration overlay. Tapped by mistake? Undo today's entry or reset the log. It all stays on your device.
[The Despair Comparison]
Compare jackpot odds (1 in 20,000,000) with absurdly unlikely everyday events:
- Getting hit by a meteorite: 29x more likely
- Getting struck by lightning: 16x more likely
- Finding a four-leaf clover: 2,000x more likely
Visualize it with log-scale bar charts and a 50x50 dot grid (one gold dot among 2,500).
[Lifetime Waste Simulator]
"What if you spent ¥3,000/month on lottery tickets for 30 years?"
See the devastating gap between total investment and estimated winnings on a chart. Plus, a "what you could have bought instead" list (Hawaii trips, iPhones, a new car...) twists the knife. Mix and match monthly spend (¥1,000-30,000), duration (1-50 years), and lottery type (Year-End Jumbo, Loto 6, Loto 7, Scratch).
[Other Features]
- English/Japanese support (auto-detected from device settings)
- First-launch onboarding that explains the app with humor (re-openable from the help button anytime)
- Bright, pop design (the content is savage)
- No accounts. Your draws, totals, and skip log stay on your device
- Ads are served by Pangle (choose whether they're personalized anytime via ? > Ad settings)
This app neither encourages nor discourages lottery purchases. It just delivers the cold, hard truth.
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