The historical record of Melate Retro begins on June 1, 2010, when Pronósticos para la Asistencia Pública held draw number 1 of the game. Since then more than 1,650 draws have taken place, each with six main numbers out of a pool of 39 plus one additional number. That archive — sixteen years of results saved draw by draw — is what we walk through here: not as a formula for winning, because none exists, but for what it actually is: an interesting statistical record of a game of chance. Every figure that follows comes straight from that archive, draw by draw, rather than from an estimate or a rounded guess.
When Melate Retro started and how much history exists
Melate Retro is the second numbers game from Pronósticos, designed as a better-odds alternative to classic Melate: instead of choosing 6 numbers out of 56, players choose 6 out of 39, which brings the jackpot odds down to 1 in 3,262,623. For the full context of why it was created, see what Melate Retro is and why it exists.
The first draw was recorded on June 1, 2010. From that date through draw 1,655 (July 28, 2026), Retro has run 1,655 consecutive draws, played almost entirely on Tuesdays and Saturdays. That's a long archive: more than sixteen years of saved results, which is what makes it possible to talk about a real "history" instead of a handful of recent draws.
The pace of draws has stayed remarkably steady: after the 2010 launch year, which counted 61 draws since the game started mid-year, Retro settled into an average of 104 to 105 draws per year — exactly what you'd expect from twice-weekly draws across 52 weeks. That consistency is what turns Melate Retro's history into a reliable archive for descriptive statistics, rather than an uneven scattering of data points.
How to read Melate Retro's history and results
A results history is useful for two legitimate things: checking old tickets and observing descriptive patterns from the past. It is not useful — worth saying plainly — for anticipating the next draw. Every Melate Retro result is independent of the one before it; the balls don't "remember" what came out last time.
That said, reading the history with judgment means looking at three things: the winning combination for each draw (the 6 main numbers plus the additional one), the size of the accumulated jackpot, and whether or not someone won the top prize that day. To look up specific draws and the current jackpot, the Melate Retro page holds the recent results; this article focuses on the long-view.
The additional number deserves its own mention, since it's often confused with how the jackpot itself is decided. In every one of the 1,655 recorded draws, a seventh number is drawn alongside the 6 main ones: the additional number. It isn't part of the combination that wins the top prize — that's calculated over the 3,262,623 possible combinations of 6 numbers out of 39 — instead it's used to define secondary prize categories, such as when a ticket matches 5 main numbers plus the additional one. When reviewing the history it's worth keeping the two separate: the streak of main numbers, and the additional number's distinct role.
Melate Retro statistics: what 1,655 draws show
With a sample this size, real descriptive statistics can be calculated, not estimates. Two concrete, draw-by-draw verified figures:
- Of the 1,655 recorded draws, the jackpot has been won outright 154 times (a little more than 1 in every 11 draws). In the rest, nobody matched all six numbers and the jackpot rolled over to the next draw.
- The average jackpot across the whole history sits around 11.4 million pesos, though the actual range runs from freshly-reset jackpots of 5 million to accumulated pots more than ten times that size.
These figures are snapshots of the past, useful for understanding how the game behaves over time — for instance, that a jackpot with no winner tends to grow draw after draw until someone hits it — not a signal about what will happen next Tuesday or Saturday.
Broken down by year, the number of jackpots won also varies: between 2010 and 2019 the average ran between 3 and 9 top prizes paid out per year, while between 2021 and 2025 it rose to a range of 11 to 17 per year. The simplest explanation isn't that the odds have changed — they remain exactly 1 in 3,262,623 on every single draw — but that ticket volume plays a role: more tickets in play overall means more chances that one of them, among millions, matches the winning combination, even though the probability for your individual ticket doesn't move at all.
Most frequent numbers in Melate Retro's history
This is the question that comes up most often about Melate Retro statistics: which numbers have come out the most? Counting the six main positions across all 1,655 draws, the five numbers with the most appearances in the history are 26 (293 times), 4 (286), 38 (281), 25 (279) and 8 (273).
For the full frequency breakdown, including a comparison against classic Melate, see Melate's most frequent numbers. Before drawing any conclusions: with 39 numbers and more than 1,650 draws, a gap of 20-30 appearances between the most frequent number and the average is exactly what pure randomness predicts, not a sign that number is "loaded." It's the same logic we cover in Melate vs Melate Retro when comparing how the two games behave over time.
The least frequent numbers, the most overdue, and other ways to read the history
At the other end, the number 5 has appeared the fewest times in the history (219 times), followed by 18 (224) and a tie between 9 and 35 (233 each). The gap between the most frequent number (293) and the least frequent (219) is just 74 appearances spread across 1,655 draws — a small, normal variation for a random process of this size.
"Overdue" status (rezago) is another curiosity: it measures how many consecutive draws a number has gone without appearing. The longest overdue streak ever recorded in Retro's history belongs to number 10, which went 43 draws without coming out. Like the frequency counts, this describes what already happened; it doesn't raise or lower the probability that number comes out in the next draw, which stays the same for all 39 numbers.
The history can also be read by parity and by range. Of the 9,930 main-number slots drawn across 1,655 draws, 5,062 were odd numbers and 4,868 were even — a gap of barely 2%, exactly what you'd expect from a genuinely random draw. Splitting the board into halves shows something similar: "low" numbers (1 through 20) have come out 5,062 times versus 4,868 for "high" numbers (21 through 39). And the sum of the six main numbers per draw averages 120, with a historical low of 35 (six low numbers) and a high of 202 (six high numbers): most draws land near the average simply because there are far more possible combinations that sum to a middle value than combinations that sum to an extreme one. That's the geometry of combinations at work, not a pattern you can use to guess the next result.
The largest jackpot on record in Melate Retro's history
Retro works with more modest jackpots than classic Melate — whose all-time record is 639.5 million pesos in sorteo 2677 of 2013 — but it has still had notable accumulations. The largest jackpot in Retro's history was recorded in draw 1,541, held on June 24, 2025, with a jackpot of 68 million pesos before it was won. It was the result of several consecutive draws with no jackpot winner, until someone finally matched all six numbers and the jackpot reset for the following draw.
Melate Retro vs Melate: what differs in their history
Classic Melate's archive is longer and its jackpots move on a different scale. Melate's documented history covers more than 2,150 draws, with an average jackpot around 127 million pesos — more than ten times Retro's average — and a top prize won in roughly 3.2% of draws. Retro, by contrast, pays out its jackpot more often relative to its own draws — close to 9.3% of the time — a direct result of drawing from a smaller number pool, and therefore fewer possible combinations to split the odds across.
That difference lines up with what each game is built for: Melate offers jackpots that can become historic — the all-time record is still the 639.5 million peso jackpot from 2013 mentioned above — in exchange for much longer odds, while Retro trades away the ceiling on jackpot size for a top prize that gets won noticeably more regularly. Neither format is objectively "better"; they're two products built on the same underlying mechanism with a different risk profile. For the full picture of the original game's archive at the same level of detail, see Melate's full history.
Why the history doesn't predict the next draw
It's worth repeating in full: none of the above — not the most frequent number, not the most overdue, not the record jackpot — changes the probability of matching the next draw. Every Melate Retro draw is an independent event with exactly the same odds for every number, regardless of what came before. The history is fun to explore and useful for understanding the game, but it isn't a prediction tool, and no system, formula or "method" based on past statistics improves your odds of winning the top prize.
This has a name: thinking that an "overdue" number is more likely to come out soon, or that a "hot" number will keep appearing, is the well-known gambler's fallacy — a reasoning error, not a valid reading of the data. The 9,930 main-number slots that make up this history are 9,930 independent events; grouping them into frequency tables helps make sense of the game's past, but every new draw starts from zero, with the balls in exactly the same condition as the very first draw back in 2010.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I check the full history of Melate Retro?
The complete record of draws, with each one's winning combination and jackpot, is available on the Melate Retro page on MelateBot, which is updated after every draw. This article summarizes the long-term statistics behind that archive rather than listing every individual result.
How far back does Melate Retro's results history go?
It goes back to the very first draw, held on June 1, 2010. Since then, more than 1,650 consecutive draws have taken place, almost all of them on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
What do Melate Retro's statistics actually show?
They show descriptive patterns from the past: which numbers have appeared more or less often, how long the longest overdue streak has lasted, and what the largest jackpot has been. They don't show or predict anything about the next draw.
Which are the most frequent numbers in Melate Retro's history?
Across all 1,655 recorded draws, the most frequent are 26, 4, 38, 25 and 8. The gap versus the least frequent numbers is small, as expected from a random process.
Do historical statistics help pick winning numbers?
Not for improving your odds of winning — those stay the same for every combination, no matter how many times each number has come out before or how long it's gone without appearing. They can help you pick less popular numbers — avoiding birthdays or obvious sequences, for example — which lowers the chance of having to split a prize with other winners if you do win.
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This content is informational and for entertainment purposes. MelateBot is not affiliated with Pronósticos para la Asistencia Pública. Melate Retro is a game of chance: no method predicts, guarantees or increases the odds of obtaining the winning numbers. Please play responsibly.