Melate Retro's draw 1541, held on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, paid out the largest jackpot the game has awarded since it launched in 2010: 68 million pesos. It got there after 22 straight draws with no jackpot winner — almost eleven weeks, from early April to late June — during which the pot climbed from just over 5 million to that 68 million. That's the best place to start a serious conversation about Melate Retro prizes: not the abstract promise of "winning," but what the game has actually paid out, how many categories split it, and how often any of them pays.
Seven categories, not just the jackpot
When someone searches for "Melate Retro prizes," they're almost always picturing the big one first: all six numbers exactly. But Retro actually pays out across seven distinct categories, built from how many of your six numbers match and whether you also matched the additional number — a seventh ball drawn from the same 1-to-39 board. Knowing them changes how you check your ticket: plenty of people toss a ticket with two or three matches without realizing that, if the additional number is among them, they won something too.
Melate Retro's prize categories, one by one
- Category 1 — 6 matches: the jackpot. All six of your numbers match the draw.
- Category 2 — 5 matches + additional: five of your numbers hit, and the sixth you chose matches the additional number.
- Category 3 — 5 matches: five correct numbers, without the additional.
- Category 4 — 4 matches: four of your six numbers match.
- Category 5 — 3 matches: three correct numbers.
- Category 6 — 2 matches + additional: only two correct numbers, but one of the ones you didn't match hits the additional.
- Category 7 — 1 match + additional: a single correct number, plus the additional.
The last two categories surprise a lot of players: they pay out with very few matches, as long as the additional number is among the ones you played. It's worth checking the whole ticket before tossing it, not just counting how many "big" numbers you got right.
The biggest jackpot Retro has ever paid — and the smallest
Since Melate Retro debuted in June 2010, MelateBot has 1,660 recorded draws through mid-August 2026. In 154 of them, someone matched all six numbers and took the jackpot — roughly one in every ten or eleven draws pays out the top category. The amount varies enormously: the smallest winning jackpot on record was just 5.1 million pesos; the largest, as noted above, was the 68 million from draw 1541 in June 2025. On average, a Retro jackpot winner walks away with just over 14 million pesos.
That 22-draw dry spell before the record isn't unheard of — the pot rises and falls depending on how many people play and how many draws pass without a winner — but it was the longest one that produced the biggest jackpot in the game's history. The previous winner had come just two and a half months earlier, in draw 1518 on April 5, 2025, with a far more modest 6.3-million-peso pot.
Why Melate Retro prizes aren't in the same league as Melate's
If you're comparing against classic Melate, the scale gap is enormous. Melate's all-time record is 639.5 million pesos (draw 2677, 2013) — practically ten times Retro's record. That makes sense: Melate draws from a pool of 56 numbers and its jackpot odds are 1 in 32,468,436, so the pot has far more time and far more draws to build before anyone hits it. Retro uses only 39 numbers, with odds of 1 in 3,262,623 — roughly ten times better — so its jackpot gets paid out more often and, as a result, almost never reaches nine-figure amounts.
Put another way: Melate offers giant jackpots that are rare; Retro offers smaller jackpots that show up more often. For the full breakdown of classic Melate's prize categories, see Melate prizes by matches, and for the complete structural comparison between both games, check Melate vs Melate Retro. The full story behind that 639.5-million record is in Melate's record jackpot.
How the pot is split across categories
Each Retro draw builds a prize fund from part of that draw's ticket sales, plus whatever rolled over if the jackpot went unclaimed in previous draws. That fund is divided among the seven categories under fixed rules set by Pronósticos para la Asistencia Pública: the more matches a category requires, the larger the share of the fund it receives. When a category has multiple winning tickets, the amount assigned to that category is split among all of them — which is why two people with the same number of matches in the same draw can end up with different payouts if they won different categories, but the same payout if they won the exact same category among the same number of winners.
How to check and claim a Retro prize
Checking a Retro ticket works exactly like checking a Melate one: compare the printed numbers against the official results for that draw, whether at the point of sale, on Pronósticos' site, or in Melate Retro results on MelateBot. If your combination lands in any of the seven categories, the ticket is payable. The full category-by-category verification guide is in how to check a Melate or Retro ticket.
Prizes have a claim deadline; miss it and the prize is forfeited. Pronósticos publishes that deadline on the back of the ticket and on its official site — we cover it in more detail in how long you have to claim a Melate prize — so a winning ticket isn't something to set aside "for later."
Frequently asked questions
What are the prizes in Melate Retro?
Retro pays out across seven categories, from six matches (the jackpot) down to one match plus the additional number. Each category's payout depends on how much is in that category's fund and how many winning tickets split it.
What's the Melate Retro jackpot and how often is it won?
The jackpot requires matching all six numbers drawn, with odds of 1 in 3,262,623. Since 2010 it's been won in 154 of the 1,660 recorded draws — the largest, 68 million pesos, in draw 1541 in June 2025.
Are Melate Retro prizes claimed the same way as Melate prizes?
Yes. Verification and payout follow the same process: check the ticket against the official result and present it within the deadline Pronósticos sets, before it expires.
Why are Melate Retro prizes usually smaller than Melate's?
Because Retro draws from a pool of 39 numbers instead of 56, so its odds are better and the jackpot gets won more often. That means smaller pots on average, but also less time waiting for someone to claim one.
Can I win a prize with very few matches in Retro?
Yes — categories 6 and 7 pay out with just two or one matches, as long as the additional number is also among the ones you played. It's worth checking the whole ticket before tossing it.
Melate Retro's prizes are, at bottom, a reminder that "winning" isn't a single event: it's seven different doors, each with its own amount and frequency, and all of them depend on the same random, independent draw. No historical pattern or number system changes those odds for next Tuesday or Saturday. If you're going to play, do it with a clear budget, and if you want combinations built from analysis of the full draw history, generate yours with MelateBot AI Picks.
MelateBot is not affiliated with Pronósticos para la Asistencia Pública. Melate Retro is a game of chance: no method predicts, guarantees, or improves the odds of obtaining the winning numbers or of winning any prize. Play responsibly.