December 2023 arrived, as it does every year, with year-end bonuses freshly deposited and a slightly longer line at the corner kiosk. Amid the holiday shopping, there's always someone who picks up one or two Melate tickets "just in case" before the year closes out. That week's draw, held on Wednesday the 6th, was number 3831. Anyone searching for Melate 3831 results today almost certainly wasn't in that line nearly three years ago: they found a forgotten ticket in a winter jacket pocket, want to settle a family argument about how close an uncle really came, or just have a four-digit number stuck in their head out of curiosity. Whatever the reason, here are the official figures, no filler, and what's actually worth knowing about them almost three years later.
Melate 3831 Results: The Official Combination and the Jackpot
Melate's draw 3831 was held on Wednesday, December 6, 2023. These were the numbers that came up that night:
If your ticket has exactly those six digits printed on it, in any order, it matches the official, verified result of draw 3831. The adicional isn't part of the main combination and doesn't affect the jackpot — it only breaks ties for the prize tiers awarded for matching five or four numbers.
Nobody completed all six numbers that night. The jackpot, worth 67 million pesos, went unclaimed, and the pool rolled into draw 3832. Draw 3831 had already arrived carrying nineteen consecutive rollovers without a jackpot winner; since nobody matched it that night either, the streak reached twenty.
How to Check Your Ticket Against This Draw
Checking a ticket is more than glancing at a couple of familiar digits. It's worth doing carefully:
- Compare each of the six numbers printed on your ticket, one by one, against 10, 18, 19, 23, 43, and 53 — order doesn't matter.
- Check whether 27, the adicional, also appears on your ticket, since that determines the exact prize tier if you matched five numbers.
- If the paper has faded or you don't trust your memory, don't rely on an old photo on your phone — use the official Pronósticos site or MelateBot's results lookup.
The full method, ticket in hand, is covered in the guide on how to check a Melate ticket.
981 Days Later: Can a Prize From This Draw Still Be Claimed?
From December 6, 2023 to today, 981 days have passed. You don't need to memorize any rulebook to guess what that means: no lottery prize in Mexico stays open for claim for almost three years. The window is counted from the draw date, not from whenever you happen to find the ticket, and it — for any prize tier, not just the jackpot — closed a long time ago for draw 3831. If the ticket in your hand turned out to be a winner, the honest answer is that it can no longer be claimed. The exact deadlines, and why they exist, are explained in how long you have to claim a Melate prize — worth reading before the next draw you actually play, so you don't let yours slip by.
The Full Analysis of Draw 3831, If You Want to Go Deeper
The numbers from 3831 hide a couple of curiosities beyond the plain list: 43 came up in two consecutive draws — 3830 and 3831 — something that happens rarely across thousands of historical draws, and the adicional, 27, broke a sixteen-draw absence. Neither fact predicted anything or changed that draw's odds; they're curiosities about what already happened, not signals about what's next. The full breakdown — parity, decade distribution, how overdue each number was — is in Melate Draw 3831: results, winning numbers and analysis.
Where Official Melate Results Are Published
Melate is drawn on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, around nine at night, and the result airs live that same evening: six spheres from a drum of 56 numbers, plus a seventh sphere, the adicional. Pronósticos para la Asistencia Pública publishes the result immediately on its official site, and at MelateBot results you can look up this week's draw or one from years back, including 3831. The full archive, sorted by date, also lives in the blog's results section.
What This Result Doesn't Change for Your Next Ticket
Draw 3831 is closed, with a fixed result that isn't going to move: nobody won, the streak reached twenty, and the pool kept rolling. That's history, not a clue. Every Melate draw is played against the same 32,468,436 possible combinations of the 6/56 format, with no memory of what came up last week, last year, or 981 days ago. When a jackpot rolls over as much as this one did, it's worth understanding why — we explain it in Melate's accumulated jackpot — and if you're wondering whether it's worth playing against a large pool, we run the numbers in is it worth playing Melate?.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the Melate 3831 results?
The six winning numbers for draw 3831, held Wednesday, December 6, 2023, were 10, 18, 19, 23, 43, and 53, with 27 as the adicional.
What was the result of Melate draw 3831?
The result was the combination 10-18-19-23-43-53 plus adicional 27. Nobody matched all six main numbers that night, so the 67-million-peso jackpot went unclaimed.
Was the jackpot won in draw 3831?
No. The draw arrived with nineteen consecutive rollovers, and since nobody matched it that night either, the streak extended to twenty rounds without a jackpot winner.
Can I still claim a prize from draw 3831?
981 days have passed since that draw, well beyond any typical claim window for a Melate prize. Check the details at how long you have to claim a Melate prize, but the short answer for a ticket from this specific date is that the window has already closed.
Where can I check the results for draw 3831 and other draws?
At MelateBot results or on the official site of Pronósticos para la Asistencia Pública, both updated the same night as each draw and carrying the complete history, including draw 3831.
If you're planning to play in upcoming draws, do it with real data behind you: MelateBot AI Picks generates balanced combinations from the game's full historical record.
This content is informational and for entertainment purposes. MelateBot is not affiliated with Pronósticos para la Asistencia Pública. Melate is a game of chance: no method predicts, guarantees, or increases the odds of obtaining the winning numbers. Please play responsibly.