There is a very short moment, between the clerk finishing the keystrokes and the printer starting, when you can still change your mind. It lasts less time than it takes to read this sentence. After that moment the ticket is what it is: the numbers on it, the games on it, and the draw it belongs to. Buying Melate with Revancha and Revanchita is not a long errand. It is a short one in which four irreversible decisions get made almost without being noticed.
How they are bought, briefly
The three games are bought together, on one ticket, in one transaction: you choose six numbers for Melate and then decide whether to add Revancha, Revanchita, both, or neither. The two companions are not sold separately and do not take numbers of their own — they ride on the selection you already made. Each is charged on top, so a ticket carrying all three costs more than a Melate line alone.
The usual channel is an authorized point of sale; there are also online routes, which we go through in buying Melate online, and the full picture of where to find it is in where to buy Melate. On prices we publish no figures here: the operator sets them and they are displayed at any authorized point of sale, which is where to confirm them.
The four decisions that fit into fifteen seconds
Listed all at once they look small, which is exactly why they slip past:
- The six numbers. Chosen by you or produced by the terminal. It is the decision that deserves the most time and usually gets the least.
- Revancha, yes or no. An additional game on that same combination, with its own draw.
- Revanchita, yes or no. Another additional game, again on that same combination. How it differs from the first is taken apart in the difference between Revancha and Revanchita.
- Which draw you enter. This one is not yours to pick: the clock decides it. Sales for a draw close before it is held, and past that cutoff what you buy counts towards the next one. We do not quote the exact cutoff — the operator sets it — but the draw calendar, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays at around nine in the evening, is in what time Melate is drawn.
The first decision has a hidden fork in it
Of the four, the one about numbers is really taken twice. First you choose who chooses: you, with a slip filled out beforehand, or the terminal, with the automatic option. And that fork is almost always settled by convenience, because filling in a slip at the counter is awkward and saying "quick pick" is not.
Neither route improves your odds; the terminal knows nothing you do not, and you know nothing it is missing. The difference sits elsewhere: a randomly generated combination tends to spread across the whole 1-to-56 range, while hand-picked ones cluster in the low numbers and in the tidy patterns of the slip, which is exactly where other people cluster too. We compare the two options in more detail in quick pick or your own numbers.
Once it prints, there is no edit
A ticket is not corrected. Revanchita cannot be added to it the next day, a mistyped number cannot be swapped, and it cannot be moved to a different draw. If you want something different, what exists is another purchase, not an amendment to the first one.
That matters more than it sounds when somebody decides "I'll add the other game tomorrow". If the sales cutoff has passed, the new ticket does not join the old one — it enters the following draw, and you end up with two tickets pointing at different nights. Not a disaster, but rarely what the person thought they were doing.
The cost, without inventing figures
We are not going to print prices on this page, but the arithmetic that actually changes how the purchase feels can still be done. Call p the cost of one Melate line, a the cost of adding Revancha and b the cost of adding Revanchita. A ticket with all three costs p + a + b.
Now multiply by the calendar. With three draws a week, always playing all three games comes to 3(p + a + b) per week and roughly 156(p + a + b) per year. The difference between saying yes to the companions and not saying it is not a + b. It is 156(a + b), because the decision is made once and charged on every ticket. Substitute the current prices and you will know inside a minute whether the habit fits your budget — an exercise we extend in how to set a lottery budget.
The counter is a bad place to decide anything
Which brings us to the practical conclusion. The transaction is designed to be fast: there is a queue behind you, the clerk is in a hurry, and the question "shall I add Revancha?" arrives exactly as you are pulling out your money. The entire irreversible part of this purchase happens during its quickest stretch.
The sensible response is not to decide faster but to decide earlier. Arrive at the counter with the six numbers already thought through, with a standing rule about the companions that you do not renegotiate every time, and with an amount settled in advance. Then the fifteen seconds go back to being what they should be: a transaction, not a negotiation with yourself.
Frequently asked questions
Can I buy Revancha without buying Melate?
No. Revancha and Revanchita are additional games layered on a Melate play; without the base play there is nothing to layer them on.
Can I add Revanchita later to a ticket I already have?
No. A printed ticket is not modified. What you can do is make another purchase, and if the sales cutoff has passed, that purchase enters the following draw.
What if the clerk keyed a number wrong?
That is why it pays to look at the ticket before you pocket it and walk off. Once printed, what counts is what the paper says, not what you meant to ask for.
How much does it cost to play all three?
Prices are set by the operator and displayed at the point of sale; we do not publish them here because they change and a wrong figure costs more than a missing one. With the formula above and the current prices, the calculation takes a minute.
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