Lotto number frequency, odds and draw history

Lotto draws 6 numbers from 49. This page counts 4,721 draws under the current rules, from October 27, 1990 to September 21, 2026, sold in Washington.

How often each number has been drawn

Across 4,721 draws each ball should turn up about 578 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 533 and 623. 3 of the 49 balls fall outside it and chance alone would put about 2 there, so this is an ordinary result. 46 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 8.2 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
37	625	above the band	0
39	621	typical	2
49	611	typical	1
43	609	typical	3
47	609	typical	2
3	605	typical	0
6	605	typical	17
8	604	typical	0
13	604	typical	0
23	599	typical	15
17	596	typical	10
16	594	typical	4
28	592	typical	16
12	590	typical	11
26	590	typical	5
27	588	typical	4
19	586	typical	5
20	586	typical	19
10	584	typical	5
14	583	typical	7
21	583	typical	2
24	581	typical	8
33	580	typical	35
40	579	typical	4
42	579	typical	9
45	579	typical	1
30	578	typical	3
31	578	typical	1
32	578	typical	2
15	574	typical	3
25	573	typical	13
4	572	typical	19
38	572	typical	12
22	571	typical	11
34	569	typical	5
5	568	typical	5
35	566	typical	0
1	564	typical	1
2	561	typical	20
18	559	typical	6
36	559	typical	7
41	559	typical	3
46	557	typical	7
48	552	typical	1
11	547	typical	8
9	541	typical	0
7	537	typical	13
44	515	below the band	2
29	514	below the band	12

The odds

Matching all 6 is 1 in 13,983,816. 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 13,983,816
5 of 6	1 in 54,201
4 of 6	1 in 1,032
3 of 6	1 in 57
2 of 6	1 in 8
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 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
July 21, 1984 to November 2, 1985	40	none
November 2, 1985 to October 27, 1990	44	none
October 27, 1990 to today	49	none

The last ten draws

Draw date	Numbers
September 21, 2026	3 · 8 · 9 · 13 · 35 · 37
September 19, 2026	1 · 31 · 35 · 45 · 48 · 49
September 16, 2026	21 · 32 · 39 · 44 · 47 · 48
September 14, 2026	9 · 15 · 30 · 32 · 41 · 43
September 12, 2026	13 · 16 · 27 · 37 · 40 · 44
September 9, 2026	3 · 5 · 10 · 19 · 26 · 34
September 7, 2026	13 · 16 · 18 · 34 · 41 · 43
September 5, 2026	13 · 14 · 36 · 39 · 46 · 47
September 2, 2026	11 · 24 · 30 · 31 · 41 · 49
August 31, 2026	3 · 13 · 15 · 27 · 36 · 42

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, 5,202 Lotto draws in all, ships inside the app and works with no connection at all.

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