Do TOTO Numbers Repeat From the Previous Draw?

It happens more often than you might think — a number from one draw showing up again in the very next one.

What "Repeat" Means Here

A "repeat" here means one of the 6 Winning Numbers from a draw also appears among the 6 Winning Numbers of the very next draw. A draw can share 0, 1, 2, 3 or more numbers with the one immediately before it.

How Often Repeats Happen

Across the 1,215 official Singapore TOTO draws this site currently covers (draw #2995, 9 Oct 2014, through the latest draw, #4209, 17 Aug 2026), there are 1,214 consecutive-draw pairs to compare. Here is how the overlap breaks down:

  • 0 repeated numbers — 503 pairs, 41.4%
  • 1 repeated number — 525 pairs, 43.2%
  • 2 repeated numbers — 158 pairs, 13.0%
  • 3 or more repeated numbers — 28 pairs, 2.3% (largest ever observed: 4)

A Simple Summary Table

The most common outcome is exactly 1 repeated number (43.2% of consecutive-draw pairs), closely followed by 0 repeated numbers (41.4%). Together, having 0 or 1 repeat accounts for the large majority of cases. 2 repeats happened 13.0% of the time, and 3 or more repeats happened in only 2.3% of consecutive pairs — the largest overlap ever observed in this dataset is 4 numbers.

Why Repeats Are Normal, Not a Pattern

A number appearing in two draws in a row can feel notable, but it is an expected outcome of drawing 6 numbers from a pool of 49 twice in a row — there is nothing that prevents the same number from being drawn again immediately, and nothing that makes it more likely to skip a draw just because it was recently drawn.

What This Doesn't Mean

The idea that "a number just came out, so it won't come out again" is a common but mistaken assumption — each draw is independent of the one before it, so a number's odds in the next draw are unaffected by whether it just appeared. See How Long Can a TOTO Number Go Without Appearing? and Hot and Cold Numbers: What Lottery Statistics Really Mean for related explanations of why past appearances don't predict future ones.