Frequency analysis

Hot, cold, and overdue numbers

Shades by how often numbers appear in the FDJ archive across your chosen window.

Heat map

Every number 1–49 shaded by how often it’s been drawn in the selected window.

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Cold Hot

Hot numbers

Drawn most often in the selected window.

3010×
4110×
319×
158×
168×
368×
378×
388×

Cold numbers

Drawn least or not at all in the selected window.

440×
421×
112×
402×
452×
23×
143×
203×

Overdue numbers

Numbers with the longest gap since last drawn.

Number	Draws ago	Last seen
44	52	15 Apr 2026
17	30	03 Jun 2026
43	28	08 Jun 2026
2	27	10 Jun 2026
39	24	17 Jun 2026
14	20	26 Jun 2026
32	18	29 Jun 2026
48	16	04 Jul 2026

Top pairs

Pairs that appear together most often in the selected window.

30+373 draws
17+413 draws
18+353 draws
16+313 draws
1+323 draws
15+413 draws
27+413 draws
5+373 draws

The predictions analytics suite

Curated top pick for every draw

Before every France Lotto draw we publish a top-five pick alongside the Chance number. Members see it the moment it goes up.

Inside that pick are two extra layers: a most-confident subset of three balls we weight highest, and a wider net of ten candidates considered before settling. It’s built from every France Lotto draw on file going back to 1976.

France Lotto curated pick: five blue balls 16, 17, 30, 31, 41 and a red Chance ball 2, with a most-confident top-three row, a wider top-ten row, and overdue pressure picks beneath.

Pick context: how the numbers stack up against history

Every pick comes with its fingerprint — the total of the five balls, the odd/even split, and the high/low balance — measured against thousands of past France Lotto draws.

You see at a glance whether a pick sits inside the typical band or out on the tail, instead of taking the numbers on faith.

Pick context panel showing the pick's sum on a scale against the typical band, plus odd/even and high/low splits versus 2,734 historical France Lotto draws.

Compare your own numbers against the pattern

Got a set you always play? Paste any five numbers from 1 to 49 and the same analysis runs on them — the total, the balance, and where they land across the archive.

Create a free account and you can save your picks, then we grade them against the next draw right alongside ours.

Compare-your-numbers tool with five empty slots to paste any picks from 1 to 49, and Compare, Quick pick and Clear buttons.

Frequency heat map for all 49 numbers

Every number from 1 to 49 shaded by how often it has landed in your chosen window. The whole board at a glance — hot, cold, and everything between.

It’s a record of what the draw has done, not a forecast of what it will do. We’re clear about that — a number absent for fifty draws is no more “due” than one that hit last night.

Frequency heat map of France Lotto numbers 1 to 49, each shaded from cold grey to hot red by how often it has been drawn.

Hot, cold, overdue and pair tables

The numbers behind the heat map, laid out as tables: most-drawn, least-drawn, longest-overdue, and the pairs that land together most often.

Switch between a 30-draw window, the last year, and the full archive to see how the picture shifts with the sample.

Hot, cold, overdue and top-pair tables for France Lotto numbers across the selected window, with frequency bars and last-seen dates.

Track record — audited every draw

We log every pick and score it against the real result: picks tracked, average hits, best score, and how often the Chance number landed.

And the honest part — our live hit rate next to pure chance, shown even when we’re behind it. No cherry-picking, no hiding the misses.

Track record: 15 picks tracked, 0.40 average hits per pick, and a live hit-rate bar showing minus 2.20 points versus the random 10.20 percent baseline.

Expected value at YesPlay payouts

France Lotto doesn’t sell tickets to South African players directly, so most members play it as fixed-odds bets at YesPlay, our recommended sportsbook.

The EV table lays out YesPlay’s actual payout for each bet type and the break-even hit rate — so you size a stake against the maths and the market, not a hunch.

Bet type

Random hit

EV (random)

Picks hit

EV (picks)

Verdict

1 main number

pays 8/1 · break-even 11.11%

10.20%

theoretical

-R0.82

-8.16% / bet

house edge

1 bonus (Chance)

pays 18/1 · break-even 5.26%

10.00%

theoretical

+R9.00

+90.00% / bet

possible +EV

2 main numbers (pair)

pays 80/1 · break-even 1.23%

0.850%

theoretical

-R3.11

-31.12% / bet

avoid

1 main + 1 bonus

pays 170/1 · break-even 0.585%

1.02%

theoretical

+R7.45

+74.49% / bet

possible +EV

3 main numbers (trio)

pays 1000/1 · break-even 0.0999%

0.0543%

theoretical

-R4.57

-45.67% / bet

avoid

4 main numbers

pays 10000/1 · break-even 0.0100%

0.0024%

theoretical

-R7.64

-76.40% / bet

avoid

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Official FDJ data

Every result is sourced from FDJ’s published draws, updated within minutes of each draw. No manual work, no scraped aggregators. The same source the official operator publishes.

Independent, not affiliated

We are not FDJ, not a ticket reseller, and not a financial advisor. Predictions and analytics are produced independently from publicly available historical data.

Random is random

France Lotto draws are independent random events. Past patterns do not change the probability of future numbers. We don’t pretend to beat that. Picks are an analytics tool, not a system.

Calibration in the open

Every past prediction is logged with the actual numbers drawn and the hit count. Browse the track record above, the misses are as visible as the hits.

These picks are an analytics tool, not financial advice. France Lotto is a game of chance, play within your limits.

Bet type	Random hit	EV (random)	Verdict
1 main number pays 8/1 · break-even 11.11%	10.20% theoretical	-R0.82 -8.16% / bet	house edge
1 bonus (Chance) pays 18/1 · break-even 5.26%	10.00% theoretical	+R9.00 +90.00% / bet	possible +EV
2 main numbers (pair) pays 80/1 · break-even 1.23%	0.850% theoretical	-R3.11 -31.12% / bet	avoid
1 main + 1 bonus pays 170/1 · break-even 0.585%	1.02% theoretical	+R7.45 +74.49% / bet	possible +EV
3 main numbers (trio) pays 1000/1 · break-even 0.0999%	0.0543% theoretical	-R4.57 -45.67% / bet	avoid
4 main numbers pays 10000/1 · break-even 0.0100%	0.0024% theoretical	-R7.64 -76.40% / bet	avoid

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Curated top pick for every draw

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Compare your own numbers against the pattern

Frequency heat map for all 49 numbers

Hot, cold, overdue and pair tables

Track record — audited every draw

Expected value at YesPlay payouts

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Official FDJ data

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