Louisiana Lotto number frequency, odds and draw history

Louisiana Lotto draws 6 numbers from 42. This page counts 636 draws under the current rules, from August 12, 2020 to September 19, 2026, sold in Louisiana.

How often each number has been drawn

Across 636 draws each ball should turn up about 91 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 73 and 109. 3 of the 42 balls fall outside it and chance alone would put about 2 there, so this is an ordinary result. 39 balls are indistinguishable from random.

This is the part worth reading twice. A number drawn more often than its neighbours has not become more likely, and the table below is sorted only because people expect it to be. The average wait between appearances for any one ball is 7.0 draws, so a gap several times that long is ordinary rather than overdue.

Ranked by how often each number has been drawn. Ranking is not a signal, it is what any fair draw looks like when you sort it.
Number	Times drawn	Against chance	Draws since last seen
8	110	above the band	11
10	107	typical	1
2	103	typical	0
16	102	typical	0
15	101	typical	2
27	101	typical	1
28	101	typical	1
4	100	typical	0
11	99	typical	0
3	98	typical	12
21	98	typical	4
35	97	typical	13
38	97	typical	5
7	96	typical	2
12	96	typical	8
20	96	typical	4
22	95	typical	2
17	93	typical	6
19	92	typical	7
34	92	typical	12
1	90	typical	8
30	90	typical	3
31	90	typical	3
18	89	typical	7
32	89	typical	3
14	88	typical	0
24	88	typical	2
26	88	typical	2
23	87	typical	5
39	86	typical	17
29	85	typical	10
33	85	typical	13
36	84	typical	1
42	84	typical	4
41	83	typical	6
25	82	typical	4
37	82	typical	11
13	81	typical	3
9	78	typical	24
6	75	typical	2
40	71	below the band	0
5	67	below the band	11

The odds

Matching all 6 is 1 in 5,245,786. Every tier is worked from the matrix directly, so these are exact rather than rounded figures copied from a leaflet.

Exact probabilities, worked from the matrix rather than quoted from anywhere.
Match	Chance per ticket
6 of 6	1 in 5,245,786
5 of 6	1 in 24,286
4 of 6	1 in 555
3 of 6	1 in 37
2 of 6	1 in 6
1 of 6	1 in 2

The rules have changed 2 times

Every boundary below was derived from the published draws themselves, by walking them in order and taking the first date no earlier matrix can account for, then checked against the announced change dates. A boundary can only ever be late, never early, which keeps every draw inside the era it is filed under.

This is why the counts above are scoped to the current rules. An all-time count for Louisiana Lotto would mix in draws from a different drum, where balls added later never had a chance to appear, and those balls would read as permanently cold for a reason that has nothing to do with luck.

In effect	Main pool	Bonus pool
February 1, 1992 to April 18, 1998	44	none
April 18, 1998 to August 12, 2020	40	none
August 12, 2020 to today	42	none

The last ten draws

Draw date	Numbers
September 19, 2026	2 · 4 · 11 · 14 · 16 · 40
September 16, 2026	10 · 11 · 27 · 28 · 36 · 40
September 12, 2026	6 · 7 · 15 · 22 · 24 · 26
September 9, 2026	13 · 14 · 26 · 30 · 31 · 32
September 5, 2026	20 · 21 · 25 · 30 · 32 · 42
September 2, 2026	20 · 21 · 23 · 25 · 32 · 38
August 29, 2026	13 · 15 · 17 · 20 · 41 · 42
August 26, 2026	4 · 10 · 18 · 19 · 28 · 36
August 22, 2026	1 · 4 · 7 · 12 · 24 · 31
August 19, 2026	13 · 14 · 24 · 28 · 36 · 40

Where this comes from

Every draw on this page came from the jurisdiction that ran it, and the matrix was derived from that published history rather than copied from a marketing page. The full archive, 3,353 Louisiana Lotto draws in all, ships inside the app and works with no connection at all.

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