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256

boxed family 256 · distinct · pays $37.50 box

Quick facts (all-time)

9 hits · current skip 368 draws · avg gap 117 · last seen 2025-08-31

Draw-time split:

NATIONWIDE DNA

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2026 Hits Nationwide
74
Total 2026 draws across all 42 states
Most Recent State Hit
Maine
ME Pick 3 · 2026-09-03 (Evening) · Combo: 265
Biggest State Drought
Indiana (922 draws)
Last seen 2025-06-01 in IN Daily 3
TOP 5 STATES WHERE 256 IS MOST OVERDUE:
Indiana: 922 draws skip (IN Daily 3) New Jersey: 801 draws skip (NJ Pick 3) Colorado: 549 draws skip (CO Pick 3) Maryland: 492 draws skip (MD Pick 3) Arkansas: 410 draws skip (AR Cash 3)
SMART COURIER TICKET ADVISOR (ONLINE APP PLAYERS):
Optimal state to buy 256 today: Arkansas (AR Cash 3) · Overdue by 410 draws (1.86x normal cycle)
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Which Systems Feature 256 (256)

Live scan across all 31 strategies in the lab — dynamic in-flight chases, rolling conveyor pipelines, permanent system rosters, and algorithmic rankings.

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Upcoming Draw (Evening)
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
Profit Leaders (top 10, 90d window)
2 hits (-$455 net)

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

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No active strategy is wagering on 256 (256) for the upcoming Evening 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
-$3248
-9.4% ROI

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#15 Top Overdue by Ratio
Gap of 368 draws (expected ~167)
2.2× Expected Skip
Cici's Rules Targeted by 8 Machine Rules
Appears as predicted target in published rules
Active In Ruleset

🏆 Top Historical Strategy Hit Generators for 256 (Which systems generated the most winning payouts on this family in the archive)

Profit Leaders (top 10, 90d window) ↗ 2 hits -$455 net
Carryover Mixed-Parity · Rapid 3-Draw Hold Ladder ↗ 1 hit +$26 net
Carryover Mixed-Parity · Rolling 10-Draw Hold Ladder ↗ 1 hit -$84 net
Calendar Year Top-5 ↗ 1 hit -$434 net
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 31 0 0.00% $0.00 $7.75 -$7.75 #140
3 months 92 0 0.00% $0.00 $23.00 -$23.00 #158
6 months 182 0 0.00% $0.00 $45.50 -$45.50 #178
1 year 364 0 0.00% $0.00 $91.00 -$91.00 #198
2 years 727 7 0.96% $262.50 $181.75 +$80.75 #13
3 years 1,091 7 0.64% $262.50 $272.75 -$10.25 #57
4 years 1,337 9 0.67% $337.50 $334.25 +$3.25 #50
5 years 1,337 9 0.67% $337.50 $334.25 +$3.25 #50
All time 1,337 9 0.67% $337.50 $334.25 +$3.25 #50

2. How many drawings does it take to hit?

Measured from every one of the 1,337 archive draws used as a starting point.

Avg gap117 draws
Median gap26 draws
Longest drought666 draws
Current skip368 draws
Hit withinHistorical frequency
1 draw of playing it0.7%
2 draws of playing it1.3%
3 draws of playing it1.9%
5 draws of playing it3.1%
10 draws of playing it6.1%
25 draws of playing it12.0%
50 draws of playing it19.1%
100 draws of playing it28.7%

Recent gaps between hits: 1, 666, 11, 40, 11, 12, 118, 78 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 5 31.1% ▲1.9 all-time 29.2% digit 6 27.4% ▼0.0 all-time 27.4% digit 2 22.6% ▼4.5 all-time 27.1%

Its digit pairs (both digits in the draw)

PairWindow rateAll-time rateWindow hits
566.67%6.81%18
254.44%5.98%12
264.44%5.24%12

Sum profile

Digit sum 13 has hit 111 times all-time (8.30% of draws), 21 in the last 90 days.

Positional lands (window rate)

pos1=2: 9.3%  pos2=5: 10.4%  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
236 distinct 7 2026-09-05 0 2025-11-08, 2026-09-05
569 distinct 14 2026-08-26 10 2026-07-28, 2026-08-26
245 distinct 9 2026-08-18 18 2026-05-09, 2026-08-18
356 distinct 9 2026-08-16 20 2026-07-29, 2026-08-16
568 distinct 9 2026-08-06 30 2026-06-10, 2026-08-06
125 distinct 8 2026-07-23 44 2026-06-25, 2026-07-23
267 distinct 9 2026-07-10 57 2025-08-26, 2026-07-10
056 distinct 14 2026-06-17 80 2026-05-25, 2026-06-17
259 distinct 13 2026-05-20 108 2025-10-17, 2026-05-20
026 distinct 5 2026-05-18 110 2026-01-14, 2026-05-18
258 distinct 13 2026-05-12 116 2026-02-16, 2026-05-12
246 distinct 8 2026-05-05 123 2026-04-10, 2026-05-05
269 distinct 11 2026-04-19 139 2025-12-22, 2026-04-19
126 distinct 9 2026-04-14 144 2025-09-21, 2026-04-14
456 distinct 14 2026-03-20 168 2025-11-17, 2026-03-20
567 distinct 13 2026-03-16 172 2026-02-21, 2026-03-16
235 distinct 8 2026-03-10 178 2025-07-26, 2026-03-10
268 distinct 7 2026-01-31 216 2025-12-26, 2026-01-31
025 distinct 6 2026-01-20 227 2025-07-01, 2026-01-20
225 double 6 2026-01-18 229 2025-01-05, 2026-01-18

6. Hit history

Year by year

2023: 2   2024: 2   2025: 5   2026: 0  

Expected vs actual (all-time)

9 hits vs 8 expected (uniform)+1

Last 8 hits

DateDrawNumber
2025-08-31Evening625
2025-06-14Evening256
2025-02-15Evening265
2025-02-03Evening652
2025-01-23Evening256
2024-12-13Evening265
2024-12-02Evening562
2023-02-02Evening562

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

188 2× · avg +3.0
002 1× · avg +4.0
034 1× · avg +7.0
058 1× · avg +6.0
113 1× · avg +1.0
139 1× · avg +5.0
145 1× · avg +7.0
155 1× · avg +4.0

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
1 188 double 2 (random ≈ 0.1) 1/2 0 1 3.0 draws
2 002 double 1 (random ≈ 0.1) 1/2 0 0 4.0 draws
3 034 distinct 1 (random ≈ 0.1) 1/2 0 0 7.0 draws
4 058 distinct 1 (random ≈ 0.1) 1/2 0 0 6.0 draws
5 113 double 1 (random ≈ 0.1) 1/2 1 1 1.0 draws
6 139 distinct 1 (random ≈ 0.1) 1/2 0 0 5.0 draws
7 145 distinct 1 (random ≈ 0.1) 1/2 0 0 7.0 draws
8 155 double 1 (random ≈ 0.1) 1/2 0 0 4.0 draws

Follow history — every time family 256 was drawn

All Draws (9)

Occurrence-by-occurrence log: each of the 9 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)
625 2025-08-31 · Evening 229 +1 567 +2 059 +3 155 +4 289 +5 389 +6 555 +7 136 +8 347 +9 789 +10
256 2025-06-14 · Evening 113 +1 235 +2 188 +3 155 +4 259 +5 158 +6 145 +7 199 +9 999 +10
265 2025-02-15 · Evening 669 +1 346 +2 567 +3 057 +4 689 +5 678 +6 235 +7 128 +8 008 +9 266 +10
652 2025-02-03 · Evening 478 +1 039 +2 456 +3 259 +4 078 +5 235 +6 137 +7 566 +8 038 +9
256 2025-01-23 · Evening 229 +1 568 +2 159 +3 002 +4 139 +5 058 +6 034 +7 178 +8 379 +9 345 +10
265 2024-12-13 · Evening 266 +1 159 +2 346 +3 457 +4 449 +5 015 +6 234 +7 345 +8 369 +9
562 2024-12-02 · Evening 012 +1 599 +2 116 +3 036 +4 024 +5 489 +6 339 +7 158 +8 134 +9 477 +10
562 2023-02-02 · Evening 188 +1 033 +2 178 +3 225 +4 078 +5 088 +6 137 +7 246 +8 169 +9 199 +10
265 2023-02-01 · Evening 256 +1 188 +2 033 +3 178 +4 225 +5 078 +6 088 +7 137 +8 246 +9 169 +10

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

RuleTargetPast triggersHit ≤ windowRandom baselineAvg waitMedian waitNever ≤10
d6-2-3
6: look for 2 or 3 to follow
digit 2 367 51.0% (≤2d) 46.8% 2.9 2 4%
p56-3-37
56 brings digit 3 and/or pair 37
digit 3 91 48.4% (≤2d) 45.6% 3.2 2 5%
d6-2-3
6: look for 2 or 3 to follow
digit 3 367 48.2% (≤2d) 45.6% 3.2 2 4%
d5-7-sets
5: look for 7; sets 7&5, 5&2, 7&0, 7&1
digit 7 391 47.3% (≤2d) 47.8% 3.4 3 3%
d3-absence
look for 3 in the draw after 9 consecutive draws without it
digit 3 94 43.6% (≤2d) 45.6% 3.3 3 9%
sum13-14-watch
sums 14 & 13: watch for false trips and more doubles
any double 216 43.5% (≤2d) 45.8% 3.3 3 5%
d5-7-sets
5: look for 7; sets 7&5, 5&2, 7&0, 7&1
pair 25 391 12.3% (≤2d) 11.6% 4.8 4 55%
d5-7-sets
5: look for 7; sets 7&5, 5&2, 7&0, 7&1
pair 57 391 11.8% (≤2d) 11.6% 5.1 5 58%
p25-self-13
25 repeats or brings a 13 pair
pair 13 80 11.3% (≤2d) 8.8% 5.2 5 56%
d5-7-sets
5: look for 7; sets 7&5, 5&2, 7&0, 7&1
pair 15 391 10.5% (≤2d) 9.5% 4.5 4 65%
p56-3-37
56 brings digit 3 and/or pair 37
pair 37 91 9.9% (≤2d) 10.9% 5.8 7 46%
d2-sets
2 drawn in sets: 2&6, 5&2, 7&2
pair 26 362 9.7% (≤2d) 10.2% 5.2 5 59%
d2-sets
2 drawn in sets: 2&6, 5&2, 7&2
pair 25 362 9.7% (≤2d) 11.6% 5.1 5 54%
p25-self-13
25 repeats or brings a 13 pair
pair 25 80 8.8% (≤2d) 11.6% 4.6 4 61%
travel-25-89
25 pair travels with pair 89 (reciprocal)
pair 89 80 8.8% (≤2d) 10.3% 5.4 5 56%
d5-7-sets
5: look for 7; sets 7&5, 5&2, 7&0, 7&1
pair 05 391 8.7% (≤2d) 9.6% 5.3 5 59%
d2-sets
2 drawn in sets: 2&6, 5&2, 7&2
pair 27 362 8.6% (≤2d) 9.8% 5.0 5 64%

Full rule history in the Signal Lab.