Step 1: Read the Big Games First
The October 26, 2026 PCSO slate is dominated by one number: ₱305,120,397.13. That is the announced 6/55 Grand Lotto jackpot carried into tonight's draw, and it is the figure most Filipino bettors will be scanning for when they open the results page. The winning combination drawn was 27-38-44-51-20-47.
Mega Lotto 6/45, drawn in the same evening block, landed on 06-34-45-36-30-16 with a jackpot of ₱15,000,000.00. That is the standard minimum for the game, which tells you the previous Mega Lotto draw produced no grand prize winner and the pool reset to its floor.
Both games use the same 9:00 PM draw window, so if you hold a ticket in each, check them one at a time rather than scanning the whole row. A single mismatched digit in 6/45 is the difference between the jackpot and the second prize tier, which pays a fixed ₱32,000 for five correct numbers. In 6/55, five of six pays ₱100,000.
The order of the numbers as published — 27-38-44-51-20-47 — is not sorted, and that is normal. PCSO publishes combinations in the order the balls left the machine. Sorting them does not change your claim, but it does make cross-checking against your ticket faster.
| Game | Winning combination | Jackpot (PHP) | Winners |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swertres 3D 2:00 PM | 1-5-8 | ||
| Swertres 3D 5:00 PM | 9-8-7 | ||
| Swertres 3D 9:00 PM | 9-7-8 | ||
| EZ2 2D 2:00 PM | 12-10 | ||
| EZ2 2D 5:00 PM | 24-12 | ||
| EZ2 2D 9:00 PM | 11-18 | ||
| 6/55 Grand Lotto | 27-38-44-51-20-47 | 305,120,397.13 | |
| 6/45 Mega Lotto | 06-34-45-36-30-16 | 15,000,000.00 | |
| 4D Lotto 9:00 PM | 6-5-5-3 | * | |
| 6/55 Grand Lotto | 27-38-44-51-20-47 | 305,120,397.13 | |
| 6/45 Mega Lotto | 06-34-45-36-30-16 | 15,000,000.00 | |
| 4D Lotto 9:00 PM | 6-5-5-3 | * | |
| Swertres 3D 2:00 PM | 1-5-8 | ||
| Swertres 3D 5:00 PM | 9-8-7 | ||
| Swertres 3D 9:00 PM | 9-7-8 | ||
| EZ2 2D 2:00 PM | 12-10 | ||
| EZ2 2D 5:00 PM | 24-12 | ||
| EZ2 2D 9:00 PM | 11-18 |
Step 2: Work Through the Digit Games by Time Slot
The three-digit and two-digit games run three times daily, and October 26, 2026 gave us a full set. The table above lists all of them; here is how to read them without losing your place.
Swertres 3D
- 2:00 PM: 1-5-8
- 5:00 PM: 9-8-7
- 9:00 PM: 9-7-8
Notice the afternoon-to-evening pattern: 9-8-7 in the 5:00 PM slot and 9-7-8 in the 9:00 PM slot use the same three digits with the last two swapped. This is exactly the kind of sequence that produces a cluster of near-misses, because a bettor playing a straight bet on 9-8-7 for both slots would have collected on the first and lost on the second. A rambol (any-order) bet on those three digits would have hit both.
Standard Swertres payout is ₱4,500 for a ₱10 straight bet and ₱1,500 for a ₱10 rambol. The ₱10 minimum is the floor across all PCSO digit games, and most outlets will accept up to ₱2,000 per combination per draw on Swertres.
EZ2 2D
- 2:00 PM: 12-10
- 5:00 PM: 24-12
- 9:00 PM: 11-18
The digit 12 appears twice across the EZ2 slate — first position in the 2:00 PM draw and second position in the 5:00 PM draw. EZ2 pays ₱4,000 for a ₱10 straight bet and ₱2,000 for a rambol. Because the game is only two digits, the hit rate is meaningfully better than Swertres, which is why the payout sits lower. If you are building a budget across all three slots, EZ2 at ₱10 per combination per draw costs ₱30 a day.
Step 3: Confirm the 4D Result and Its Asterisk
4D Lotto for the 9:00 PM draw came out as 6-5-5-3. The table shows an asterisk in the jackpot column rather than a peso figure. That asterisk is the standard PCSO marker for a pari-mutuel prize pool — the pot is split among all winners in the top tier rather than paid at a fixed rate, and the final amount is only published once the winner count is verified.
For 4D, the first prize is pari-mutuel; the lower tiers are fixed. Three correct digits in exact position pays ₱800, two correct pays ₱100, and one correct pays ₱20, all on a ₱10 base bet. The repeat of the digit 5 in positions two and three is worth flagging: repeated digits cut down the number of distinct winning combinations in play, which tends to thin out the top-tier winner count and push the pari-mutuel share higher for anyone who did hit.
Minimum bet on 4D is ₱10, and the maximum per combination per draw is ₱2,000 at most outlets, matching the other digit games.
Step 4: Check Your Ticket Against the Claim Window
Getting the numbers right is only half the job. PCSO prizes are claimable within one year from the date of the draw, and October 26, 2026 tickets run until October 26, 2027. Miss that window and the prize is forfeited to the PCSO charity fund.
Where you claim depends on the amount:
- Up to ₱10,000: any authorized PCSO lotto outlet or the nearest PCSO branch office.
- ₱10,001 to ₱300,000: any PCSO branch office, with the ticket and one valid government-issued ID.
- Above ₱300,000: the PCSO main office in Mandaluyong, where the prize is processed through the central treasury.
For the Grand Lotto 6/55 jackpot at ₱305,120,397.13, a sole winner falls into the third tier. Two things happen at that level: the 20% final tax on prize winnings above ₱10,000 is withheld at source, and the winner is offered the standard security and financial-literacy briefing before release. On ₱305.1 million, the withheld tax alone is roughly ₱61 million, leaving about ₱244.1 million net.
Write your name and signature on the back of the ticket now, before anything else. An unsigned winning ticket is the single most common reason claims get contested, and PCSO treats the bearer as the owner absent a signature.
Step 5: Log It and Move On
The disciplined habit is to record the October 26, 2026 results somewhere you can find them again — a notes app, a spreadsheet, a notebook. Track which games you actually played, how much you staked per draw, and what came back. Over a month of Swertres, EZ2 and 4D at ₱10 per combination per slot, the total outlay is small enough to be invisible in a weekly budget but large enough to matter over a year.
Treat the jackpot figures in the table as information, not as a target. The Grand Lotto 6/55 pool at ₱305,120,397.13 is the product of many consecutive rollovers with no grand prize winner; the odds of a single ticket taking it are 1 in 28,989,675. Mega Lotto 6/45 sits at 1 in 8,145,060. Those numbers do not change based on which combinations came out before, and no system of hot-and-cold tracking moves them.
Play within a fixed monthly amount you have already decided is expendable, buy only from authorized outlets, and keep your tickets somewhere dry and flat. That is the whole method.




