Do you know which Philippine lottery has produced the most significant number of jackpot winners in 2017? Based on the title of the page, you’ve probably guessed already – it’s 6 42 Lotto. In 2017, the game made 16 people millionaires. It’s followed by 6 45 Lotto with its nine winners.
6 42 Lotto is one of the oldest games in the portfolio of the Philippine Charity Sweepstake Office (PCSO). It was launched on March 8, 1995, and over the years, the lottery has undergone some important changes.
Initially, 6 42 Lotto was drawn only once per week. Today, there are three drawings and the territory on which tickets can be bought has expanded to the Visayas-Mindanao area, as well.
While our primary goal is to give you information about the 6/42 results, we’d also like to acquaint you with the most important rules and facts of the game.
6 42 Lotto Rules
Just like the other games in the PCSO portfolio, Lotto 6/42 is a standard numerical lottery. To play, you have to choose six numbers from a pool of 42. Single entry into the game will cost you 20 pesos.
Drawings take place three times per week – on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. They’re broadcast live on PTV4 at 9 p.m. local time.
Apart from the standard gameplay, 6 42 Lotto fans can also choose among multiple system entries. These make it possible to pick over six numbers. While a system entry is costlier, the numerical combinations are more and there’s a chance of winning multiple prizes.
The most inexpensive system entry features seven numbers, and it costs 140 pesos. The most expensive 6 42 Lotto system consists of 12 numbers that can produce a total of 924 six-digit combinations. A 12-number entry into 6 42 Lotto will cost you 18,480 pesos.
Lottery players in the Philippines have to be 18 or older to have the legal right to participate in a drawing. At the time being, tickets can be acquired from all of the authorized PCSO retail venues. There are no online ticket buying options for players in the Philippines or another country (international players who are currently in the Philippines have the right to buy 6 42 Lotto tickets and test their luck).
6 42 Lotto Prizes
6 42 Lotto has a minimum guaranteed jackpot of six million pesos. If there’s no winner for the respective drawing, the sum will roll over towards the next one. This way, 6 42 Lotto can produce wonderfully big jackpots.
The odds of claiming the top prize are 1 in 5,245,786. Other than the jackpot 6 42 Lotto three additional prize tiers and here’s how the prizes are distributed:
| Prize Tier | Numbers to Match | Estimated Prize (₱) |
| Jackpot | 6 | At least 6 million |
| 2 | 5 | 25,000 |
| 3 | 4 | 1,000 |
| 4 | 3 | 20 |
6 42 Lotto is a pari-mutuel game. The numbers presented in the table above are the maximum an individual player can win for the second and the third prize tier (the fourth one has a fixed prize). If the number of winners is very high, the respective percentage will be divided equally among them. Thus, the sum could be smaller than the one announced here.
As far as the top prize goes, there have been several lovely 6/42 jackpots through the years.
By the summer of 2010, Lotto 6 42 had produced 772 millionaires, maintaining its popularity as the game that gives back the most. It’s not a strange phenomenon – 6 42 Lotto has the best odds out of all the games organized by PCSO.
In 2017, the value of jackpot prizes totaled 319 million pesos.
Over the years, there have been several jackpots exceeding the 30-million-peso mark.
In 2012, one player snatched a jackpot of 32.99 million pesos. Additional information hasn’t been provided because PCSO does not require lottery winners to divulge their identity. The only information shared is the winning numerical combination – 23, 13, 19, 20, 42, and 34.
In September 2016, a single retiree aged 60 became the winner of a 31.2 million pesos jackpot. The winning numbers were 10, 14, 19, 25, 31 and 32. The winner chose them on the basis of his children’s ages, his birthday, and the birth date of his wife.
PCSO revealed the information that the grateful man would be giving back – approximately three million pesos from the jackpot were to be dedicated to a church in Nueva Ecija.
6 42 Lotto is practically the easiest out of all the PCSO lotteries when it comes to snatching the jackpot. This fact is the one that boosts the popularity of the game and makes it one of the most beloved in the Philippines.
Anyone who is lucky enough to win a prize will have to follow a simple procedure to claim the cash. Prizes of up to 5,000 pesos can be cashed at any authorized PCSO venue. Sums in the range from 5,001 to 20,000 pesos are to be requested at the PCSO branch offices (more information about their addresses is available on the official PCSO website).
Larger prizes are to be claimed in person from the PCSO head office in Mandaluyong City.
All 6 42 Lotto have to familiarize themselves with the fact that as of 2018, lottery taxation rules have changed in the country. Previously, Philippine lotteries produced tax-free prizes. As of January 2018, there is an income tax of 20 percent that applies to all of the prizes.
If you are a committed 6 42 Lotto player, you should definitely bookmark our website. The latest PCSO lotto result 6/42 is available in the top part of the page. There, you will also find a 6 42 results archive. By accessing the 6 42 results archive, you can get a much better idea about the hottest numbers that have produced the biggest number of winners through the years.
Apart from the latest 6 42 Lotto results, you can also find information about the other lotteries in the PCSO portfolio. Just head to the top menu and click on the name of the game that you’d like to learn more about. The page will also feature a results archive for your consideration.