Lotto 6/42 result for August 17, 2024
6/42 lotto result today at a glance
| PCSO Lotto 6/42 | |
|---|---|
| Numbers | 6 from 1 to 42 |
| Bonus ball | None |
| Draw days | Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday |
| Draw time | 9:00 PM, Asia/Manila |
| Ticket price | ₱25 (includes 20% documentary stamp tax) |
Lotto 6/42 draw schedule
| Day | Time |
|---|---|
| Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday | 9:00 PM, Asia/Manila |
Ticket sales run from 7:00 AM and close around 8:00 to 8:30 PM on draw nights. 6D Lotto draws on the exact same three nights as Lotto 6/42, every single week, more overlap than any other pair of PCSO games.
Here is when every other PCSO game draws:
- Ultra Lotto 6/58: Tuesday, Friday, Sunday at 9 PM
- Grand Lotto 6/55: Monday, Wednesday, Saturday at 9 PM
- Super Lotto 6/49: Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday at 9 PM
- Mega Lotto 6/45: Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9 PM
- 6D Lotto: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday at 9 PM
- 4D Lotto: Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9 PM
- 3D Lotto: Monday to Sunday at 2 PM, 5 PM, 9 PM
- 2D Lotto: Monday to Sunday at 2 PM, 5 PM, 9 PM
How to check today's 6/42 lotto result against your ticket
Check the game name on your ticket first, then the draw date, then the six numbers. Confirm against pcso.gov.ph or the live draw stream last. Skip that order, and a genuine loss can feel like a win, or the other way around.
The mistake specific to this game is not about number ranges, it is about game type. 6D Lotto shares all three of Lotto 6/42's draw nights and posts six digits of its own, but 6D allows repeated digits (0 to 9 each) while Lotto 6/42 draws six different numbers from 1 to 42. A results table listing both side by side is easy to misread if you are only glancing at digit count, not the actual rules.
Two more mistakes cost real tickets:
- Draw day drift. Lotto 6/42 is Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Not Monday, not Sunday. A template built for Grand Lotto 6/55 or Mega Lotto 6/45 will get this wrong.
- The 8 PM cutoff. Outlets stop selling around 8:00 to 8:30 PM. A ticket bought after that rolls to the next Lotto 6/42 date, so checking it against tonight's draw manufactures a loss that never happened.
One more detail: the barcode reads the combination, not the print order. Whether your slip shows 02-11-19-27-33-42 or 42-33-27-19-11-02, it is the same ticket.
What a Lotto 6/42 prize is really worth
Lotto 6/42 odds are 1 in 5,245,786 for the jackpot, the shortest odds of any PCSO 6-number game. The minimum jackpot is ₱10,000,000, the lowest floor of the five major number games, and it is pari-mutuel: if more than one ticket hits six numbers, the pot splits between them.
The 5-of-6 and 4-of-6 tiers move with how many tickets get sold that night (PCSO calls this a Prize Pool Share), so the figure changes draw to draw. More matches at that tier on a given night means a smaller cut for each winner; a quiet night pays out more per winner.
Matching three numbers pays a fixed ₱20, the smallest fixed prize on this list. It is not a consolation jackpot. Confirm the game name printed on the ticket before you treat that ₱20 as a sign the bigger prize is close.
How to claim your Lotto 6/42 prize
Sign the back of your ticket the same night, using the exact name on your government ID. Keep it flat, not folded in a wallet. A cracked barcode or thermal fade is enough for an outlet to turn you away.
The ₱10,000 mark is the real fork:
- ₱10,000 and below: any authorized outlet or the nearest PCSO branch. Cash, no tax, two valid IDs.
- ₱10,001 to ₱300,000: a PCSO branch office only, not the outlet counter. Payment is by check. PCSO withholds 20% final tax under the TRAIN Law. Bring two IDs and your TIN. Weekdays only, roughly 8:15 AM to 4:30 PM.
- Jackpot or above ₱300,000: the PCSO Main Office.
You have one year from the draw date to claim. For the full walkthrough, including what to bring and what actually happens at the branch counter, read our complete guide to claiming PCSO lotto winnings.
One warning worth repeating: PCSO does not text winners asking for a "processing fee," and it does not validate prizes over Messenger. If that message arrives, it is a scam.
Why Lotto 6/42 is the game every other PCSO draw grew out of
Lotto 6/42 is not just another number game. PCSO launched it on March 8, 1995, as the country's first computerized on-line lottery, and every other game on this hub, from Super Lotto to Ultra Lotto, followed years after it proved the format worked. For almost a decade it even ran as two separate draws, one for Luzon and one for the Visayas and Mindanao combined, before PCSO merged them into a single nationwide draw on November 9, 2004.
That history does not change tonight's odds. What it explains is why 6/42 still carries the lowest jackpot floor and the shortest odds on the list: it was built for a smaller, earlier betting market, and PCSO layered bigger, longer-odds games on top of it over the following two decades instead of retiring it.
The smallest board on the hub also produces the tightest birthday-range squeeze. Read more in our breakdown of PCSO lotto strategies and the hot-number myth.
Is the WisePH lotto number generator worth using for 6/42?
The pitch does not change for the oldest game on the hub, even if the ticket price and rules have been updated more than once since 1995.
| What people hope it does | What it actually does |
|---|---|
| Raise 1-in-5-million odds | Leaves those odds untouched |
| Read the last 5 draws and predict | Uses them only to nudge you away from copying, then randomizes |
| Find "hot" numbers | Refuses to. PCSO draws have no memory |
| Guarantee a unique jackpot | Only lowers the chance you split it if that line hits |
The free PCSO lotto calculator and number generator picks six numbers from 1 to 42 with equal odds for each, and it steers clear of the all-birthday, all-diagonal patterns that human brains default to on any board, old game or new.
For a first Lotto 6/42 try: select 6/42 in the dropdown, generate one line, and treat it the same way you would a brand-new game, not a lucky old one.
The ₱102.3-million Lotto 6/42 jackpot that shows the ceiling is still high
The biggest Lotto 6/42 win on record happened on June 3, 2025, when a lone bettor in Talisay City, Cebu, matched the combination 05-22-14-03-23-11 for ₱102,346,298. It remains the largest Lotto 6/42 payout since the game's 1995 launch.
The lesson is not that a 30-year-old game has run out of surprises. It is that even PCSO's lowest jackpot floor can still roll over long enough to cross nine figures, on a game most players treat as the small one.
How much should you actually spend on 6/42?
Keep Lotto 6/42 inside the same ₱100 to ₱300 weekly cap you would set for any PCSO game, not stacked on top of it. Its age and familiarity are not reasons to treat it as safer or more predictable than any newer game on the hub.
In practice, that means one standard ₱25 play on a Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday, no different from how you would budget for a game PCSO launched last year instead of thirty years ago.