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🔬 OFFICIAL SCOUTING REPORT NUMBER: 256 (distinct)
256 Boxed Family 256 · Pays $37.50 Box
⭐ Grade A · Prime Running Condition
Lifetime Drops
16 Hits
Total winning drops in Illinois Pick 3
Last Service Date
2026-08-06
89 drawings ago (Current Skip)
Drought / Cycle Status
🟢 Normal Interval
Avg cycle: 173 draws
Nationwide Title Status
81
Hits nationwide in 2026 (42 States)
Draw-time split:
NATIONWIDE DNA

Universal Cross-State Intelligence (42 States)

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2026 Hits Nationwide
81
Total 2026 draws across all 42 states
Most Recent State Hit
Kentucky
KY Pick 3 · 2026-10-05 (Midday) · Combo: 265
Biggest State Drought
Indiana (950 draws)
Last seen 2025-06-01 in IN Daily 3
TOP 5 STATES WHERE 256 IS MOST OVERDUE:
Indiana: 950 draws skip (IN Daily 3) New Jersey: 829 draws skip (NJ Pick 3) Colorado: 572 draws skip (CO Pick 3) Maryland: 520 draws skip (MD Pick 3) Arkansas: 436 draws skip (AR Cash 3)
SMART COURIER TICKET ADVISOR (ONLINE APP PLAYERS):
Optimal state to buy 256 today: Arkansas (AR Cash 3) · Overdue by 436 draws (1.98x normal cycle)
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Which Systems Feature 256 (256)

Live scan across all 36 strategies in the lab — dynamic in-flight chases, rolling conveyor pipelines, permanent system rosters, and algorithmic rankings.

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Upcoming Draw (Midday)
0 Plays
No in-flight wagers for this slot
Permanent System Rosters
1
Fixed research portfolios & core sets
Consensus Panel Status
Independent
Not currently in multi-model consensus
Top Strategy Hit Generator
Baseline Only
No model hits recorded

🎯 Active Strategy Calls for Upcoming Midday Draw (Dynamic In-Flight Wagers & Active Play Slips)

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No active strategy is wagering on 256 (256) for the upcoming Midday drawing.
Dynamic strategies (empirical followers, rolling conveyor pipelines, and Cici's rules) enter numbers into in-flight play when preceding triggers or carryover conditions occur.

📋 Permanent System Rosters (1) Structural portfolios

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Full Statistical Baseline
-$8445
-11.2% ROI

⚡ Dynamic Leaderboards & Candidacy Live algorithmic status

Cici's Rules Targeted by 9 Machine Rules
Appears as predicted target in published rules
Active In Ruleset
Mirror Symmetry (0↔5, 1↔6, 2↔7, 3↔8, 4↔9)

Mirror Number: 701
Mirror Family: 017

Digital Root Sum (1–9)

Digital Root: Root 4
Sum: 13 (reduction = 4)

Parity & High/Low Profile

Parity: Even-Odd-Even
Range: Low-High-High

1. Hits in every time frame

How many times 256 hit in each window, how often that is per draw, what you'd have netted playing it on every drawing ($0.25/play), and how it ranks by hits among all 220 families.

WindowDrawsHitsRate/drawRevenueCostProfitHot rank /220
1 month 62 0 0.00% $0.00 $15.50 -$15.50 #147
3 months 184 2 1.09% $75.00 $46.00 +$29.00 #33
6 months 366 3 0.82% $112.50 $91.50 +$21.00 #40
1 year 732 5 0.68% $187.50 $183.00 +$4.50 #55
2 years 1,462 7 0.48% $262.50 $365.50 -$103.00 #92
3 years 2,194 13 0.59% $487.50 $548.50 -$61.00 #56
4 years 2,716 16 0.59% $600.00 $679.00 -$79.00 #55
5 years 2,716 16 0.59% $600.00 $679.00 -$79.00 #55
All time 2,716 16 0.59% $600.00 $679.00 -$79.00 #55

2. How many drawings does it take to hit?

Measured from every one of the 2,716 archive draws used as a starting point.

Avg gap173 draws
Median gap179 draws
Longest drought573 draws
Current skip89 draws
Hit withinHistorical frequency
1 draw of playing it0.6%
2 draws of playing it1.2%
3 draws of playing it1.8%
5 draws of playing it2.9%
10 draws of playing it5.5%
25 draws of playing it12.7%
50 draws of playing it23.9%
100 draws of playing it43.0%

Recent gaps between hits: 3, 323, 9, 8, 221, 573, 179, 249, 44, 226, 186, 69 draws

4. Digit profile of 256

How often each of this number's digits and digit-pairs appear in a winning number (window vs all-time), where its digits land positionally, and its sum profile.

digit 2 28.1% ▲2.2 all-time 26.0% digit 5 27.8% ▲0.0 all-time 27.8% digit 6 24.8% ▼1.3 all-time 26.1%

Its digit pairs (both digits in the draw)

PairWindow rateAll-time rateWindow hits
265.56%4.49%15
254.44%5.19%12
563.70%4.97%10

Sum profile

Digit sum 13 has hit 223 times all-time (8.21% of draws), 22 in the last 90 days.

Positional lands (window rate)

pos1=2: 10.7%  pos2=5: 11.9%  pos3=6: 8.9%  

5. Near-miss network — one digit away from 256

Every family that differs from 256 by a single digit. When one of these hits, the number you're watching was one digit away — these are the closest relatives in the archive.

FamilyTypeAll-time hitsLast seenGapRecent hit dates
246 distinct 10 2026-09-12 15 2026-07-19, 2026-09-12
245 distinct 14 2026-09-11 16 2026-05-01, 2026-09-11
026 distinct 22 2026-09-10 18 2026-08-10, 2026-09-10
268 distinct 12 2026-08-31 38 2026-03-18, 2026-08-31
125 distinct 14 2026-08-29 43 2025-12-04, 2026-08-29
156 distinct 13 2026-08-17 66 2026-06-03, 2026-08-17
236 distinct 9 2026-08-16 68 2026-08-16, 2026-08-16
235 distinct 15 2026-08-12 77 2026-01-26, 2026-08-12
569 distinct 13 2026-08-07 87 2025-12-15, 2026-08-07
225 double 11 2026-07-29 105 2025-12-15, 2026-07-29
259 distinct 14 2026-07-25 113 2026-05-24, 2026-07-25
056 distinct 10 2026-07-23 116 2025-11-05, 2026-07-23
258 distinct 19 2026-07-07 149 2026-06-16, 2026-07-07
255 double 8 2026-07-01 160 2026-04-10, 2026-07-01
267 distinct 19 2026-06-30 163 2026-05-27, 2026-06-30
257 distinct 13 2026-06-29 165 2025-08-04, 2026-06-29
568 distinct 17 2026-06-24 174 2026-01-03, 2026-06-24
356 distinct 16 2026-06-06 211 2026-05-07, 2026-06-06
566 double 8 2026-05-24 236 2026-05-13, 2026-05-24
266 double 4 2026-05-20 244 2025-04-15, 2026-05-20

6. Hit history

Year by year

2023: 5   2024: 4   2025: 4   2026: 3  

Expected vs actual (all-time)

16 hits vs 16.3 expected (uniform) — -0.3

Last 8 hits

DateDrawNumber
2026-08-06Midday562
2026-07-02Evening562
2026-03-31Evening625
2025-12-08Evening652
2025-11-16Evening526
2025-07-15Midday526
2025-04-16Evening265
2024-07-04Midday562

3b. What actually got drawn after 256

2 occurrences · 20 follow-up draws scanned · "avg" is the average arrival wait in draws.

Draw Time:

Top followers chart All Draws

015 1× · avg +9.0
017 1× · avg +6.0
027 1× · avg +3.0
028 1× · avg +5.0
047 1× · avg +8.0
057 1× · avg +3.0
058 1× · avg +10.0
069 1× · avg +1.0

Across all 2 historical occurrences of 256, the next 10 draws after each were scanned (20 draws total). These are the number families that showed up most often — "count" is total appearances, "covered" is how many of the 2 occurrences it appeared in.

#FamilyTypeTimes drawn ≤10 afterCoveredWithin 1 drawWithin 3 drawsAvg arrival wait
1 015 distinct 1 (random ≈ 0.1) 1/2 0 0 9.0 draws
2 017 distinct 1 (random ≈ 0.1) 1/2 0 0 6.0 draws
3 027 distinct 1 (random ≈ 0.1) 1/2 0 1 3.0 draws
4 028 distinct 1 (random ≈ 0.1) 1/2 0 0 5.0 draws
5 047 distinct 1 (random ≈ 0.1) 1/2 0 0 8.0 draws
6 057 distinct 1 (random ≈ 0.1) 1/2 0 1 3.0 draws
7 058 distinct 1 (random ≈ 0.1) 1/2 0 0 10.0 draws
8 069 distinct 1 (random ≈ 0.1) 1/2 1 1 1.0 draws

Follow history — every time family 256 was drawn

All Draws (16)

Occurrence-by-occurrence log: each of the 16 times the family was drawn (any order), these are the families that followed within 10 draws and how many draws each took to arrive. Most recent first.

DrawnDate · timeFamilies that followed (arrival wait)
562 2026-08-06 · Midday 134 +1 569 +2 378 +3 122 +4 116 +5 037 +6 129 +7 012 +8 026 +9 347 +10
562 2026-07-02 · Evening 478 +1 058 +2 288 +3 234 +4 346 +5 068 +6 089 +7 238 +8 258 +9 026 +10
625 2026-03-31 · Evening 356 +1 057 +2 245 +3 049 +4 567 +5 159 +6 128 +7 447 +8 117 +9 134 +10
652 2025-12-08 · Evening 188 +1 468 +2 569 +3 144 +4 077 +5 366 +6 599 +7 344 +8 018 +9 347 +10
526 2025-11-16 · Evening 016 +1 099 +2 688 +3 135 +4 469 +5 366 +6 255 +7 148 +8 018 +9 125 +10
526 2025-07-15 · Midday 058 +1 038 +2 166 +3 237 +4 226 +5 359 +6 144 +7 033 +8 056 +9 136 +10
265 2025-04-16 · Evening 289 +1 235 +2 029 +3 025 +4 556 +5 677 +6 022 +7 559 +8 039 +9 116 +10
562 2024-07-04 · Midday 478 +1 126 +2 026 +3 037 +4 058 +5 059 +6 078 +7 057 +8 179 +9 145 +10
256 2024-03-15 · Evening 299 +1 668 +2 057 +3 667 +4 028 +5 455 +6 268 +7 047 +8 457 +9 058 +10
265 2024-03-11 · Evening 599 +1 225 +2 457 +3 178 +4 146 +5 139 +6 023 +7 256 +8 299 +9 668 +10

6. Cici's rules this number triggers — and their track records

RuleTargetPast triggersHit ≤ windowRandom baselineAvg waitMedian waitNever ≤10
d3-absence
look for 3 in the draw after 9 consecutive draws without it
digit 3 175 52.0% (≤2d) 45.2% 3.0 2 2%
d6-2-3
6: look for 2 or 3 to follow
digit 2 709 45.3% (≤2d) 45.2% 3.3 3 7%
sum13-14-watch
sums 14 & 13: watch for false trips and more doubles
any double 433 44.3% (≤2d) 47.9% 3.3 3 3%
d5-7-sets
5: look for 7; sets 7&5, 5&2, 7&0, 7&1
digit 7 754 43.0% (≤2d) 47.0% 3.4 3 3%
d6-2-3
6: look for 2 or 3 to follow
digit 3 709 42.7% (≤2d) 45.2% 3.4 3 5%
p56-3-37
56 brings digit 3 and/or pair 37
digit 3 135 38.5% (≤2d) 45.2% 3.6 3 4%
d5-7-sets
5: look for 7; sets 7&5, 5&2, 7&0, 7&1
pair 05 754 13.0% (≤2d) 12.1% 4.9 5 52%
d5-7-sets
5: look for 7; sets 7&5, 5&2, 7&0, 7&1
pair 57 754 11.4% (≤2d) 11.6% 5.0 5 53%
p25-self-13
25 repeats or brings a 13 pair
pair 13 141 11.3% (≤2d) 10.2% 5.0 4.5 62%
d5-7-sets
5: look for 7; sets 7&5, 5&2, 7&0, 7&1
pair 25 754 10.2% (≤2d) 10.1% 5.1 5 58%
d5-7-sets
5: look for 7; sets 7&5, 5&2, 7&0, 7&1
pair 15 754 10.1% (≤2d) 10.4% 5.0 5 60%
d2-sets
2 drawn in sets: 2&6, 5&2, 7&2
pair 25 705 9.9% (≤2d) 10.1% 5.2 5 59%
p25-self-13
25 repeats or brings a 13 pair
pair 25 141 9.9% (≤2d) 10.1% 5.4 6 56%
travel-25-89
25 pair travels with pair 89 (reciprocal)
pair 89 141 9.2% (≤2d) 9.1% 5.1 5.5 59%
d2-sets
2 drawn in sets: 2&6, 5&2, 7&2
pair 26 705 8.5% (≤2d) 8.8% 5.1 5 62%
d2-sets
2 drawn in sets: 2&6, 5&2, 7&2
pair 27 705 7.7% (≤2d) 8.7% 5.3 5 64%
p56-3-37
56 brings digit 3 and/or pair 37
pair 37 135 7.4% (≤2d) 10.2% 5.6 6 57%

Full rule history in the Signal Lab.