Lotto 6/49 hot and cold numbers
Every ball drawn in the last 12 Lotto 6/49 draws, ranked from most to least often — and whether the gap between the two ends is any wider than chance produces.
12 draws · Aug 2026 – Sept 2026 · 72 balls
These numbers describe the past. They cannot predict the next draw.
This describes the past, not the future. Every number has the same chance in every draw. Nothing here changes your odds.
Balls have no memory. In every draw each number has exactly the same chance — 1 in 49 of being the first ball out, whether it appeared last week or has not shown up for a year. Nothing on this page changes your odds. It is here because the patterns are interesting, and because knowing which combinations are popular can lower your chance of sharing a jackpot.
Draws analysed
12
72 balls drawn
Expected per number
1.5
If every ball were perfectly even
Drawn most
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until the archive is deep enough
Drawn least
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until the archive is deep enough
Every number, by how often it came up
Colour shows the gap from the expected 1.5 appearances.
Below expected · Expected · Above
−1.7 +1.7
below · expected 1.5 · above
Withheld. The archive is too young for a chart of 49 numbers to say more than chance does.
A test for a favoured ball needs more draws than this window holds, so we do not report one. Nothing here says a number is due. How we test for bias →
Drawn most often
Appearances in 12 draws
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Drawn least often
Appearances in 12 draws
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Longest droughts on record
The longest run of draws each number has sat out. It never made them "due".
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Turn up together most
Pairs appearing in the same draw
Withheld — a pair count needs more draws than a single number does, and no pair has yet turned up together often enough to mean anything.
The one statistic that can actually help you
Roughly a third of players choose numbers from 1–31 because they are using birthdays, and thousands of tickets carry 1-2-3-4-5-6 every week. Picking outside those patterns will not make you more likely to win — but if you do win, you are less likely to be sharing the jackpot with a hundred other people.
There is not enough in the archive to rank these numbers yet.
We hold 12 draws under this format, about 1.5 appearances per number. That is too few for a frequency table, a hot and cold list, or a test of whether the spread is even, to say more than chance does — so we show none of them. It needs about 164 draws, and the archive grows with every draw.
A hot and cold list on a short archive ranks numbers whose counts differ almost entirely by chance. It looks like a finding and it is not one, so we do not publish it until the archive can carry it.
Does playing hot numbers work?
No. A number that has come up often is not more likely to come up again, and a number that has been missing is not owed an appearance. The machine has no memory of either.
The chance of matching the jackpot with any line is 1 in 13,983,816 whichever numbers are on it. Choosing from the top of this page and choosing from the bottom give exactly the same result.
Then why publish it?
Because it is a genuine record of what has happened, and because the alternative is letting somebody else show you the same list with the implication attached. Counting past draws is interesting. It is not a forecast.
If you want something that does change an outcome, it is this: most players pick dates, so lines built from 1 to 31 are chosen far more often. A winning line above 31 is shared with fewer people. That changes the size of a prize, never the chance of one.
Last updated Sunday 20 September 2026, after the draw on Saturday 19 September 2026.
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The reasoning behind the comparison number above: why hot and cold numbers do not work, what the record shows about shapes people avoid, and what a matrix change does to any count taken across it.