The receipt has three lines — Melate, Revancha, Revanchita — and above all of them, in small print, the full name of the body that runs them: Pronósticos para la Asistencia Pública. It's no accident that so many people end up typing "pronósticos deportivos melate revancha y revanchita" into the search bar, all as one string, as if it were a single question: the operator's name sounds too much like its most advertised product, the football pool. Someone who only knows that word from the old TV ads looks at the ticket and assumes it's the same thing. It isn't. And the confusion gets worse right when you activated the two extra modalities: now you have three results to look up, under a name that seems to promise a fourth game — a football one — that you never even bought.
What "Pronósticos" printed on your ticket actually means
The full name is Pronósticos para la Asistencia Pública, a decentralized body of the Mexican federal government that runs several distinct games under one umbrella. Melate is one of them: a number lottery where you pick 6 digits from 1 to 56 plus an additional number, and the outcome depends solely on which balls come out of a drum. For the full mechanics, see what Melate is.
But the same body also runs, and has for decades, a far louder brand in popular culture: Pronósticos Deportivos. That name overlap — the operator is called "Pronósticos" and one of its products is also called "Pronósticos Deportivos" — is the exact root of the confusion that brings people to this article. We break it down product by product in Melate vs. Pronósticos Deportivos; here we're after the narrower question: what does any of that have to do with Revancha and Revanchita?
Pronósticos Deportivos is a different animal entirely
Pronósticos Deportivos is a football pool: bets on real match outcomes, not draws of numbered balls. Its flagship product is Progol, where players predict fourteen matches and the prize is split among whoever guessed the most scorelines correctly. There, what you know about the sport actually matters — a team's form, an injury, the schedule — though it guarantees nothing either, because football is unpredictable by design.
Melate, Revancha and Revanchita share none of that logic. There are no matches, no scorelines, no football knowledge that helps in any way. They are mechanical draws of numbered balls, as unrelated to a soccer ball as a school raffle would be.
Revancha and Revanchita, quickly explained: same numbers, two more jackpots
When you buy your Melate ticket you can activate two optional draws that run with your same 6 numbers, no second board to fill out: Revancha and Revanchita. Neither uses an additional number — that's the mechanical difference from the main Melate draw — and each has its own extraction and its own accumulated jackpot, separate from Melate's and from each other's. You can win one and not the other; they're independent draws that simply share a starting point. The full rundown of how they're activated and won is in Melate, Revancha and Revanchita, and the line-by-line comparison between the two is in the difference between Revancha and Revanchita.
As a reference for how large a jackpot can grow when nobody wins, the record for the Melate series was $639,500,000 MXN, in draw 2677 back in 2013. Revancha and Revanchita carry their own jackpots, which can roll over for many consecutive draws and land at very different figures from each other on the same date.
Pronósticos Deportivos, Melate, Revancha and Revanchita: the short list of differences
- Pronósticos Deportivos: football pool, the outcome depends on real matches, sports knowledge matters.
- Melate: number lottery, 6 numbers from 1 to 56 plus an additional number, pure chance, draws Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
- Revancha: your same 6 Melate numbers, no additional number, its own jackpot and draw.
- Revanchita: same as Revancha — same numbers, no additional number — but with a third, independent jackpot and draw.
None of the three lottery modalities has any connection to sports results, league schedules or scorelines. They share an operator, not a mechanism.
Why activating all three modalities multiplies the confusion, not the football connection
Here's the practical trap: if you activated Revancha and Revanchita, your single 6-number combination now competes in three separate draws the same night. That means three winning-number lists to check, not one. The most common mistake is checking only the Melate result, seeing it doesn't fully match, and writing off the ticket without also comparing it against Revancha and Revanchita separately. That back-and-forth between three results — combined with an operator name that sounds like a football pool — is exactly what feeds the tangled search that gives this article its title. If you're wondering whether activating both modalities is worth the extra cost, we run the numbers in is it worth playing Revancha and Revanchita?.
Where to check each result without getting lost
All three draws — Melate, Revancha and Revanchita — take place the same night: Wednesday, Friday or Sunday, around 9:00 p.m. You can check all three results together on our results page or in the Melate results guide. If instead you were looking for the football pool's result, that belongs on the official Pronósticos Deportivos site, not the number-lottery pages: they're completely separate results systems, even while sharing an operator.
Frequently asked questions
Are Pronósticos Deportivos and Melate Revancha y Revanchita the same game?
No. Pronósticos Deportivos is a football-results pool; Melate, Revancha and Revanchita are numbered-ball draws with no connection to matches or scorelines. They share an operator — Pronósticos para la Asistencia Pública — and nothing else.
Are pronósticos deportivos and Melate Revancha y Revanchita bought together?
They're often sold at the same outlets — corner stores, convenience stores, online platforms — because the same operator distributes both products. That doesn't make them the same game or a combined play.
Do I need to know football to win Revancha or Revanchita?
No. Revancha and Revanchita are decided by the same 6 numbered balls from 1 to 56 as Melate, drawn at random from a drum. Sports knowledge has no application there; it only matters in the Pronósticos Deportivos pool.
How do I tell Melate Revancha y Revanchita apart from Pronósticos Deportivos on the ticket?
Look at the product, not the operator's name printed at the top. If your ticket has 6 numbers from 1 to 56 and the Revancha or Revanchita boxes checked, it's a number lottery. If it has predictions on football matches — home win, draw, away win — it's the football pool. They're entirely different ticket formats.
Where do I see today's Melate, Revancha and Revanchita result?
On our results page or in Melate results, after 9:00 p.m. on the draw day. Before that time, the result simply doesn't exist yet.
If you're going to play, do it with judgment: generate balanced combinations with MelateBot AI Picks, and activate Revancha and Revanchita knowing exactly what you're buying — a number lottery, not a football pool.
This content is informational and for entertainment purposes. MelateBot is not affiliated with Pronósticos para la Asistencia Pública or any other gambling operator. Melate, Revancha and Revanchita are games of chance: no method predicts, guarantees or increases the odds of obtaining the winning numbers. Please play responsibly.