Every word Melate uses to name something ends up generating its own scattered pile of questions, and "revancha" produces more than most: some about the language, some about how the draw actually works underneath. Here they are together, each one answered in a paragraph, without circling around it and without repeating what's already been covered elsewhere.
About what "revancha" actually means
These four are about the language: where the word comes from and how literally to take it.
Is "Revancha" the draw's official name, or just a popular nickname?
It's the official name of the add-on draw played the same night as Melate, not a nickname people came up with afterward or an informal way of referring to something else. Pronósticos uses it in its own materials and on the ticket itself, and it's the term you'll find in any official source, with no regional variants or alternate versions competing with that name. That it's an official name, not a nickname, is exactly why it's worth asking what the word actually means — someone chose it on purpose, it didn't end up there by accident, and that choice is exactly what the rest of these questions take apart one at a time.
Does the word have a connection to boxing or sport, or is that just a coincidence?
It's not a coincidence, though it isn't a direct loan from boxing specifically either. "Revancha" is an older, broader Spanish word — used in duels, in card games, in any contest with a clear winner and loser — and sport is just one of the many arenas where it's still alive today, right alongside chess, dominoes, and any board game where the loser asks for "la revancha" before getting up from the table. The draw picked up the word from that shared pool, not from any one sport in particular, the same way "bote" made its way into Melate from poker without the draw having anything to do with cards.
Is "Revanchita" a real diminutive, or a separate name with no connection to "revancha"?
It's a real diminutive, carrying all the weight diminutives carry in Mexican Spanish: it doesn't just describe something smaller, it describes something said with more familiarity and less weight, the same logic behind a "cafecito" or an "ahorita." Revanchita is, literally, Revancha's little sister in the name — and in how it's presented within the draw, as the extra tacked onto the end, not as the main event. It isn't an invented marketing name with no connection to the rest: it follows exactly the same rule you'd use to make a diminutive out of any other Spanish word ending in "a."
Should I take the name literally, as if it were "avenging" something?
No. The name describes a feeling — a second chance, in the same moment, with no waiting — not an actual situation of getting even. There's no opponent you're playing against, there wasn't a previous loss of yours that this draw is here to correct, and not winning Revancha isn't "losing again": it's simply not matching an independent draw, with its own combination and its own odds. It's more useful to think of it as a name inherited from another context than as an exact description of what you're actually playing that night.
About how it actually works in the game
These other four are about the draw itself: how different it really is from Melate, and whether the name changes anything real.
Is Revancha a separate draw from Melate, or the same draw under a different name?
It's a separate draw, with its own winning combination, held the same night as Melate and sharing its date and time, in the same broadcast and on the same ticket if that's how you set it up when you bought it. What they don't share is the result: one combination doesn't determine or influence the other, even though they're announced together in the same broadcast. The full difference between Revancha and Revanchita, draw by draw, is in the difference between Revancha and Revanchita, if you want more detail than fits in one paragraph. Sharing a broadcast is exactly what causes the name confusion in the first place; in practice, each one gets checked and paid separately.
Do I need to buy Revancha separately, or does it come included with Melate?
It depends on how you fill out your ticket when you buy — it's an option you add explicitly, not something that comes automatically with any Melate ticket. You have to mark or select it, whether you're buying at a physical point of sale or online, and the same goes for Revanchita. How to play Melate covers exactly where that option gets chosen at the moment of purchase, step by step, without assuming you already know where to look for it.
Does the name "Revancha" change anything about the odds?
No. The name has no effect on how the winning combination gets picked, on how many combinations are possible, or on how likely a match is. It's exactly the same kind of mechanical draw as Melate, just with a different combination in play, chosen independently and with no relationship to what happened in earlier draws. If you want the exact numbers behind that, how Melate's odds are calculated explains it with the same logic for all three draws.
Does "Revanchita" have better odds than "Revancha" because it's smaller?
No, and this is probably the most common mix-up among these eight questions. The diminutive describes how the draw is presented — as the extra on top of the extra — not its actual size or its prize structure. Each of the three draws has its own mechanics and its own odds, independent of what the name suggests; the diminutive is a decision about language, not a technical description of anything. For the game's full vocabulary, with every term in one place, there's the Melate glossary.
If after all this you just want to play without wondering about the name anymore, AI Picks at /precios generates a combination for all three draws at once — it doesn't change any of the odds, but it saves you the decision of what to fill in on each table, without depending on any of the eight questions you just worked through. MelateBot isn't affiliated with Pronósticos para la Asistencia Pública or any state lottery; Melate, Revancha, and Revanchita are games of chance, and no tool guarantees an outcome. Play responsibly.