How to Win the Persona 5 Royal Lottery: Easy Money Trophy Guide

Anyone asking how to win the lottery Persona 5 Royal style is really asking about one weekly ticket, one trophy and one save file.

The lottery stand in Persona 5 Royal sells a ten-number Mammoth strip for 3,000 yen, pays 100,000 yen for a first-place hit, and locks in the result the moment the vendor takes the money. Those three facts decide the whole Persona 5 Royal lottery question. The stand is cheap, the jackpot is large for the early game, and the only thing a reload can change is which ticket you bought, never which numbers are drawn. Everything else in this guide follows from that.

Yen matters in this game in a way it does not in most JRPGs. Weapons and armor at Iwai’s shop, medicine from Takemi, SP-restoring drinks from vending machines, gifts for confidants, the fees for fusing and summoning Personas back from the compendium: all of it drains the same wallet, and the calendar gives no second chances. A 100,000 yen windfall in May buys a full set of gear before Madarame’s Palace. The same sum in December barely covers a couple of compendium summons.

Where the Persona 5 Royal lottery stand is (and when it opens)

The stand is in Shibuya’s Station Square, the plaza with the giant screens that Joker walks into after leaving the underground passage. Head toward the upper right corner of the square and the small booth sits near the edge of the walkable area, easy to miss behind the crowd. It appears on the Shibuya map from the first free-roam day in April, so the earliest possible ticket comes only days into the game.

Two details about access are wrong in most older write-ups. The booth is open in the daytime and in the evening, and buying a ticket consumes no time at all. That is confirmed by the Japanese strategy wikis for both Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal, which list the stand as available day and night with no time passing. In practice this means a lottery visit can be bolted onto any trip to Shibuya, before a movie at the cinema, after a shift at the flower shop or on the way home from a night at the batting cages, without stealing a slot from anything else.

Checking a result works the same way. The winning numbers wait at the stand from the seventh day after purchase, and a visit on day nine or day twelve collects the same prize. Nothing expires. The same applies to the weekly cooldown, which counts from the purchase date rather than from a fixed weekday, so a strip bought on a Wednesday unlocks the next purchase the following Wednesday regardless of when the result was collected.

The three lotteries and their prize tables

Three products share the one counter. They differ in price, in how often they can be bought and in what they pay, and one of them is a guaranteed profit.

Mammoth Lottery (weekly)

The standard draw. One purchase per week, counted from the day of the last purchase, at 3,000 yen for a strip of ten numbers. In Royal you choose loose numbers or consecutive numbers from a single menu, and only one of the two per week. The original Persona 5 presented the same choice as separate windows at the booth. Neither wiki has found any difference in odds between the two.

Place	Prize
1st	100,000 yen
2nd	10,000 yen
3rd	5,000 yen
4th	2,000 yen
5th	300 yen
6th	100 yen

Only the top three tiers beat the 3,000 yen price. Fourth place returns two thirds of the stake, and fifth and sixth are consolation prizes in name only. Over a full Royal calendar of thirty-plus weekly draws, buying every week costs well over 100,000 yen, which is worth remembering before treating the stand as an investment.

Summer Mammoth Lottery (July only)

A one-time event. Tickets are on sale from July 1 to July 31 at 5,000 yen for a ten-number strip, one purchase for the whole window, and the winning numbers are posted from August 22. The prize table is short and top-heavy.

Place	Prize
1st	100,000 yen
2nd	50,000 yen
3rd	30,000 yen

The Japanese wikis for both games carry the same footnote on this table: the Summer Mammoth strip always lands one of the three prizes. A 5,000 yen ticket therefore returns at least 30,000 yen, a guaranteed profit of 25,000 yen before any luck is involved. It is the best purchase at the stand by a wide margin. It does not unlock the trophy.

Scratch Lottery (daily)

One card per day at 200 yen, scratched on the spot with Morgana explaining the rules the first time. Three panels, and a prize if any panel shows a money amount.

Prize	Amount
Top	5,000 yen
Middle	1,000 yen
Bottom	200 yen

The bottom prize refunds the card. Scratch cards are pocket change against a Palace run, but at 200 yen with no time cost they are a harmless habit for players who pass through Shibuya daily anyway.

What the odds actually are

No official drop table exists for any of the three, and the wikis that document the game most carefully decline to invent one. The Persona 5 Royal wiki records three things as unconfirmed: any odds difference between loose and consecutive numbers, any difference by purchase period (the third semester being luckier is a common claim), and the beginner’s-luck effect that most English-language guides repeat. Player reports skew toward the first Mammoth strip paying something, but a pool of anecdotes from a game where most people buy their first ticket in April and stop after a few weeks proves nothing. Anyone who wants the first prize should plan on the reload loop below rather than on luck. That is the honest state of Persona 5 Royal lottery odds: three prize tables that are fully documented, and zero probabilities behind them that anyone outside Atlus has ever confirmed.

Step-by-step guide to the save-and-reload method

The answer to how to win the lottery Persona 5 Royal players keep asking about is a save file in the right place. The right place is before the purchase. Both the Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal Japanese wikis state that the result is decided at the moment of buying, and that reloading at the result announcement changes nothing. A save made in front of the stand on result day is dead weight. A save made before handing over the 3,000 yen is the only lever there is.

1. Go to Station Square in Shibuya on any day when Joker can move freely. Day or night, the stand is open and the visit costs no time.
2. Open the menu and save in a spare slot, not the main one. Name it mentally as the lottery save and do not overwrite it for the rest of the loop.
3. Talk to the vendor and buy a Mammoth Lottery strip. Loose or consecutive makes no documented difference.
4. Play the following seven in-game days normally. This is the expensive part of the method, so pick a week with nothing irreplaceable in it: no Palace deadline, no one-off confidant event, no exam.
5. From day seven onward, return to the stand and check the ticket. A prize is paid immediately.
6. If the outcome is not what you wanted, load the spare slot from step 2. You are back in front of the booth with the money still in your wallet.
7. Buy again and repeat. Every purchase after a reload is a fresh ticket.

One caveat belongs here rather than in a footnote. What the wikis document is that the outcome is fixed at purchase; the assumption that a new purchase after a reload draws a new result is what every guide, this one included, builds on, and it matches how the stand behaves in practice. If a particular save produced the same tier twice in a row, that is the kind of streak a small prize pool produces, not proof of a fixed seed.

The cost is the week, not the money. Each failed roll means replaying seven days of confidant conversations, Mementos trips and study sessions, and the game’s autosave will not rescue anyone who overwrote the spare slot by habit. A quiet week in late April, before Kamoshida’s deadline bites, or a free stretch of summer vacation after the Futaba Palace wraps up, are the least painful places to run the loop. Late-game weeks, when every evening is a confidant rank away from a maxed arcana, are the worst.

How to win the Easy Money trophy

Easy Money is a bronze trophy on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, and an ordinary achievement on Xbox and Steam. Its full description is three words: “Won the lottery.” Steam’s global achievement statistics put it at about 27 percent of players, one of 53 achievements in the PC version, so most people who finish the game never touch it.

The condition is narrower than the description. The Persona 5 Royal Japanese trophy list spells it out: the trophy is awarded for winning the ten-ticket Mammoth strip, loose or consecutive, and cannot be earned through Scratch cards or the Summer Mammoth Lottery. That rules out the two easiest wins at the stand. A daily 5,000 yen Scratch hit does nothing, and the guaranteed Summer Mammoth payout, the one draw that literally cannot lose, also does nothing for the trophy.

What the condition does not say is which tier counts. The wording is “won,” and no official Atlus source narrows it to first place, whatever older guides claim about needing the 100,000 yen jackpot. The safe reading is that any listed Mammoth prize qualifies; the least safe tiers are the 100 yen and 300 yen consolation results, which are rarely reported one way or the other. The Persona 5 Royal Easy Money condition, in other words, is a win of any documented size on the weekly strip. A player chasing the trophy specifically, not the jackpot, has an easier task than the reload loop above suggests: buy the weekly strip every week from April onward, and let the six-tier table do its work. With six prize tiers and thirty-plus draws in a calendar, the trophy tends to arrive on its own well before the third semester.

The trophy is also a Royal exclusive. The original Persona 5 has the same stand, the same prices and the same tables, but its trophy list contains no lottery award; Easy Money arrived with the 2019 Japanese and 2020 worldwide releases of Royal and carried over into every port since.

Calendar planning, the July window and other ways to earn yen

The stand opens with Shibuya free-roam in April and stays open through the third semester, so the weekly Mammoth draw is available for most of the calendar. Two dates matter beyond that.

July 1 to July 31 is the Summer Mammoth window. The month is dominated by the Futaba Palace and the run-up to summer vacation, which is exactly when a player forgets a side errand. Buy the strip on the first free evening of July; the stand is open at night, the purchase costs no time, and the 5,000 yen is recovered several times over on August 22 or any later visit. Missing the window forfeits the only guaranteed profit the stand offers, and there is no second chance in that playthrough.

August 22 is when the Summer Mammoth numbers go up. The result waits at the stand indefinitely, so a visit on August 25 or September 3 collects the same money. What the result does not do, whatever the tier, is unlock the trophy.

Beyond those two dates, the lottery is a poor income plan and a good side bet. Compared with what the game hands out elsewhere, 100,000 yen a week at best, with most weeks paying nothing, is slow money.

Source	What it pays	Requirements
Mammoth Lottery jackpot	100,000 yen, most weeks nothing	3,000 yen a week, luck or reloads
Summer Mammoth Lottery	30,000 to 100,000 yen, guaranteed	5,000 yen, once in July
Mementos with Instakill	Full battle rewards for every weak Shadow met, no fight	Ryuji’s Chariot confidant at rank 7
Chihaya’s money fortune	Doubles yen from battles for the day	Fortune confidant, a reading fee
Confusing Shadows	Confused enemies throw money each turn	Confusion skills, a target that is not immune
Negotiation	Cash demanded from a downed Shadow	A hold-up, some patience
Selling loot	Treasure items from Palaces and Mementos	Untouchable, in Yongen-Jaya

Ryuji’s Instakill is the one that reshapes the economy. From Chariot rank 7 onward, any Shadow more than ten levels below Joker is defeated on contact in Mementos with the full battle payout, and Royal adds Jose’s cognition-change bonuses on top, bought with the flowers and stamps collected during those runs. Stacking Chihaya’s money fortune with a Mementos run under those conditions produces more yen in an afternoon than the lottery can pay out in a month, and it also levels the party. The lottery’s remaining advantages are the ones noted above: the Summer Mammoth strip cannot lose, and the trophy needs a Mammoth win and nothing else.

Versions, ports and common mistakes

Sega and Atlus shipped Persona 5 Royal on PlayStation 4 in Japan on October 31, 2019 and worldwide on March 31, 2020, developed by P-Studio. On October 21, 2022 the game reached Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, with the paid DLC bundled in for free. None of those ports change the lottery. The stand is in the same corner of Station Square, the prices and prize tables are identical, the result is still fixed at purchase, and Easy Money appears in each platform’s achievement list under the same name and the same three-word description.

Between the original Persona 5 and Royal the differences are cosmetic. The original spreads the choice over three windows at the booth, loose numbers on the left, consecutive in the center and Scratch on the right, while Royal collapses that into one vendor menu. Prices, tiers, the July window and the August 22 result date are shared. The trophy is the only real addition.

Most of the questions about how to win the lottery Persona 5 Royal forums keep re-answering come down to the same handful of errors, and they are repetitive enough to list.

• Saving on result day and reloading there. The numbers are set at purchase; that save can only replay the same outcome.
• Saving in the main slot before buying, then overwriting it during the week. The reload target is gone before the result is even in.
• Chasing the Persona 5 Royal Easy Money trophy through Scratch cards or the Summer Mammoth draw. Neither counts, however large the win.
• Skipping July. The one guaranteed profit at the stand disappears with the month.
• Treating “only daytime” as a rule. The stand serves at night, and the visit costs no time slot.
• Running the reload loop across a week with a Palace deadline or a rank-up event in it, and losing that progress to a 300 yen fifth-place ticket.

The last of those is the most common. The reload method is sound, but it is a trade of hours of play for a shot at 100,000 yen, and the Mammoth strip pays that top prize rarely enough that three or four loops are normal. Players who want the money should buy the July strip and let Ryuji handle the rest in Mementos. Players who want the trophy should simply keep buying every week. The two goals only overlap for the player who wants the 100,000 yen number on screen, and for that player the spare save slot from step 2 is the entire strategy.

One number to keep in mind at the end: the wallet cap in Persona 5 Royal is 9,999,999 yen, and a Mementos afternoon under Instakill with Chihaya’s fortune active moves toward it faster than any ticket the vendor in Station Square will ever sell.