Filling a 6/55 slip with dates from 1 to 31 doesn't lower your chance of matching the draw, because every six-number combination out of 55 is equally likely. It does raise the chance of sharing if you win, since 32 through 55 get marked far less often and a birthday-shaped jackpot tends to be split more ways.
The game at a glance
6 of 55
Mon · Wed · Sat
Philippines
1 in 28,989,675
The same for every possible combination, including this one.
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18+
Must be 18+ to buy a PCSO Grand Lotto 6/55 ticket or claim a prize.
Grand Lotto 6/55, in brief
Grand Lotto 6/55 is one of the jackpot games run by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, the state agency whose lottery revenue funds medical assistance and charity programmes. A bet asks you to mark six numbers from 1 to 55 on the play slip, or take a Lucky Pick and let the terminal choose. There is no second pool and no extra ball to select, so the six numbers are the whole bet.
Draws run Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 9pm Manila time. The top prize starts at a guaranteed minimum and rolls over to the next draw whenever nobody matches all six, with no cap on how far it can climb. PCSO raised that floor to ₱45 million on 1 February 2026, part of a wider repricing that also took the standard bet from ₱20 to ₱25.
Below the jackpot, Grand Lotto pays three consolation divisions. Matching five or four numbers now draws on a shared pool worth ₱1.4 million and ₱1.3 million respectively, split between everyone in that division, while three correct numbers pays a flat ₱60. Players can also buy a system entry covering seven to twelve numbers, which prints every six-number combination those numbers make and charges accordingly.
Prize tiers
Match 6Jackpot
The jackpot, guaranteed to start at ₱45 million and rolling over with no cap until it is won
Match 5
A shared ₱1,400,000 pool, divided between everyone who matches five that night
Match 4
A shared ₱1,300,000 pool, divided between everyone who matches four that night
Match 3
A fixed ₱60, a little more than the cost of the bet
Where Grand Lotto 6/55 came from
Replacing Power Lotto
Grand Lotto 6/55 first drew in April 2010, taking over the slot held by Power Lotto, a five-from-55 game with a separate power ball drawn from ten. PCSO folded the older game's outstanding ₱108 million pot into the new one, so the very first 6/55 draw already carried a nine-figure jackpot. The change dropped the second pool and made the game a straight six-number match.
The Olongapo record
Seven months later the game produced what was then the largest lottery win in the country. On 29 November 2010 a single ticket matched 11-16-31-37-42-47 and collected ₱741,176,323. The winner was a Filipino man in his sixties who was living in New York and had bought the ticket at a duty-free mall in Olongapo the day before the draw. That record stood for close to eight years.
The 2026 repricing
On 1 February 2026 PCSO lifted the minimum jackpot on every major game and raised the standard bet to ₱25. Grand Lotto's floor went from ₱30 million to ₱45 million, and the consolation divisions were rebuilt so that matching four numbers now shares a seven-figure pool rather than a few thousand pesos. The agency framed it as a better risk-to-reward balance and a way to raise more for its charity fund.
Picking numbers, honestly
A Lucky Pick from the terminal carries identical odds to a slip you marked by hand. The terminal draws from the same 55 numbers and produces one of the same 28,989,675 combinations. Whichever way the six numbers get chosen, the ticket has one chance in that total, and no selection method moves the figure.
A bigger minimum jackpot doesn't mean better odds. The February 2026 increase raised what the top prize starts at, not the chance of hitting it. Grand Lotto still asks for six numbers out of 55, and the 1 in 28,989,675 denominator was set the day the matrix was fixed in 2010. Only a change to the pool size would move it.
Grand Lotto 6/55 — frequently asked
Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 9pm Manila time. The schedule can shift around public holidays.
Three. Matching three of the six numbers pays a fixed ₱60, a little over the ₱25 bet. Four and five numbers each share a seven-figure pool, and six wins the jackpot.
₱45 million, raised from ₱30 million on 1 February 2026. Whenever nobody matches all six numbers the pot rolls into the next draw and keeps growing without any cap, which is how 6/55 has climbed into the hundreds of millions more than once.
No. Six balls come from a single machine holding 1 to 55, and that is the whole result. Games with a seventh ball or a second pool, like the Power Lotto that 6/55 replaced, work differently.
Yes, as long as they are 18 or over and buy in person at a PCSO outlet in the Philippines. There is no official channel for buying from abroad, and prizes above ₱10,000 are claimed at a PCSO office with valid identification.