Lotto number frequency, odds and draw history

Lotto draws 6 numbers from 49. This page counts 4,742 draws under the current rules, from October 27, 1990 to November 9, 2026, sold in Washington.

How often each number has been drawn

Across 4,742 draws each ball should turn up about 581 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 536 and 626. 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	629	above the band	1
39	623	typical	12
49	615	typical	2
47	614	typical	5
43	609	typical	24
3	607	typical	0
8	607	typical	7
13	607	typical	9
6	606	typical	19
23	601	typical	12
17	600	typical	1
16	597	typical	8
28	596	typical	6
12	594	typical	3
27	593	typical	3
20	591	typical	7
19	590	typical	8
26	590	typical	26
10	585	typical	20
24	585	typical	7
21	584	typical	8
14	583	typical	28
30	582	typical	4
33	582	typical	0
40	581	typical	3
42	581	typical	6
45	581	typical	0
31	579	typical	2
32	579	typical	3
25	576	typical	5
4	575	typical	2
15	575	typical	5
38	573	typical	14
22	571	typical	32
34	570	typical	1
5	568	typical	26
35	568	typical	6
1	567	typical	6
2	565	typical	9
18	564	typical	0
36	563	typical	6
46	561	typical	13
41	560	typical	5
48	557	typical	3
11	549	typical	1
9	543	typical	1
7	542	typical	0
29	518	below the band	0
44	516	below the band	2

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
November 9, 2026	3 · 7 · 18 · 29 · 33 · 45
November 7, 2026	9 · 11 · 17 · 34 · 37 · 45
November 4, 2026	4 · 29 · 31 · 37 · 44 · 49
November 2, 2026	12 · 27 · 29 · 32 · 40 · 48
October 31, 2026	4 · 7 · 12 · 30 · 33 · 48
October 28, 2026	7 · 15 · 25 · 27 · 41 · 47
October 26, 2026	1 · 18 · 28 · 35 · 36 · 42
October 24, 2026	8 · 12 · 17 · 20 · 24 · 37
October 21, 2026	16 · 19 · 21 · 28 · 36 · 48
October 19, 2026	2 · 9 · 13 · 17 · 30 · 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, 5,223 Lotto draws in all, ships inside the app and works with no connection at all.

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