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🔬 OFFICIAL SCOUTING REPORT NUMBER: 256 (distinct)
256 Boxed Family 256 · Pays $37.50 Box
⭐ Grade A · Prime Running Condition
Lifetime Drops
20 Hits
Total winning drops in Virginia Pick 3
Last Service Date
2026-09-18
2 drawings ago (Current Skip)
Drought / Cycle Status
🟢 Normal Interval
Avg cycle: 133 draws
Nationwide Title Status
81
Hits nationwide in 2026 (42 States)
Draw-time split:
NATIONWIDE DNA

Universal Cross-State Intelligence (42 States)

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2026 Hits Nationwide
81
Total 2026 draws across all 42 states
Most Recent State Hit
Kentucky
KY Pick 3 · 2026-10-05 (Midday) · Combo: 265
Biggest State Drought
Indiana (950 draws)
Last seen 2025-06-01 in IN Daily 3
TOP 5 STATES WHERE 256 IS MOST OVERDUE:
Indiana: 950 draws skip (IN Daily 3) New Jersey: 829 draws skip (NJ Pick 3) Colorado: 572 draws skip (CO Pick 3) Maryland: 520 draws skip (MD Pick 3) Arkansas: 436 draws skip (AR Cash 3)
SMART COURIER TICKET ADVISOR (ONLINE APP PLAYERS):
Optimal state to buy 256 today: Arkansas (AR Cash 3) · Overdue by 436 draws (1.98x normal cycle)
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Which Systems Feature 256 (256)

Live scan across all 36 strategies in the lab — dynamic in-flight chases, rolling conveyor pipelines, permanent system rosters, and algorithmic rankings.

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Upcoming Draw (Night)
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
Pickstics Empirical Follower (10-Draw Hold - Top 1)
2 hits (-$104 net)

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

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No active strategy is wagering on 256 (256) for the upcoming Night 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

Baseline: All 252 Distinct Boxes ↗
Full Statistical Baseline
-$6608
-8.8% ROI

⚡ Dynamic Leaderboards & Candidacy Live algorithmic status

#16 Top Profitable (Trailing 3M)
3 hits in 3 months
+$66.50 Net
#8 Top Heaters (Trailing 30 Days)
2.2% hit rate in past 30 days
2 Hits
Cici's Rules Targeted by 9 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)

Pickstics Empirical Follower (10-Draw Hold - Top 1) ↗ 2 hits -$104 net
Pickstics Empirical Follower · Rolling 10-Draw Hold Ladder ↗ 2 hits -$749 net
Followed-By (empirical top 5) ↗ 1 hit -$545 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 62 2 3.23% $75.00 $15.50 +$59.50 #3
3 months 184 3 1.63% $112.50 $46.00 +$66.50 #11
6 months 366 3 0.82% $112.50 $91.50 +$21.00 #44
1 year 732 5 0.68% $187.50 $183.00 +$4.50 #49
2 years 1,462 10 0.68% $375.00 $365.50 +$9.50 #47
3 years 2,194 17 0.77% $637.50 $548.50 +$89.00 #21
4 years 2,716 20 0.74% $750.00 $679.00 +$71.00 #24
5 years 2,716 20 0.74% $750.00 $679.00 +$71.00 #24
All time 2,716 20 0.74% $750.00 $679.00 +$71.00 #24

2. How many drawings does it take to hit?

Measured from every one of the 2,716 archive draws used as a starting point.

Avg gap133 draws
Median gap75 draws
Longest drought588 draws
Current skip2 draws
Hit withinHistorical frequency
1 draw of playing it0.7%
2 draws of playing it1.4%
3 draws of playing it2.1%
5 draws of playing it3.5%
10 draws of playing it6.7%
25 draws of playing it15.1%
50 draws of playing it27.3%
100 draws of playing it46.9%

Recent gaps between hits: 117, 75, 57, 182, 32, 150, 302, 41, 6, 588, 109, 12 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 2 30.4% ▲2.4 all-time 28.0% digit 6 26.3% ▼0.6 all-time 26.9% digit 5 24.8% ▼1.4 all-time 26.2%

Its digit pairs (both digits in the draw)

PairWindow rateAll-time rateWindow hits
269.63%5.85%26
564.07%4.90%11
253.33%5.27%9

Sum profile

Digit sum 13 has hit 223 times all-time (8.21% of draws), 25 in the last 90 days.

Positional lands (window rate)

pos1=2: 11.1%  pos2=5: 11.1%  pos3=6: 9.3%  

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
268 distinct 12 2026-09-17 4 2026-02-16, 2026-09-17
226 double 10 2026-09-15 8 2026-07-15, 2026-09-15
566 double 4 2026-09-11 16 2026-02-28, 2026-09-11
126 distinct 22 2026-09-10 19 2026-06-26, 2026-09-10
156 distinct 14 2026-09-09 21 2026-07-10, 2026-09-09
246 distinct 16 2026-09-09 20 2026-08-09, 2026-09-09
269 distinct 17 2026-08-22 56 2026-08-20, 2026-08-22
456 distinct 21 2026-08-14 72 2026-06-12, 2026-08-14
568 distinct 16 2026-08-03 95 2026-07-23, 2026-08-03
267 distinct 22 2026-07-31 101 2026-07-23, 2026-07-31
259 distinct 25 2026-07-21 121 2026-05-30, 2026-07-21
125 distinct 5 2026-07-14 134 2026-02-22, 2026-07-14
255 double 7 2026-07-10 143 2026-05-19, 2026-07-10
236 distinct 16 2026-07-06 151 2026-04-21, 2026-07-06
026 distinct 16 2026-06-13 197 2026-05-18, 2026-06-13
569 distinct 14 2026-06-12 199 2025-12-11, 2026-06-12
266 double 8 2026-06-11 201 2025-06-18, 2026-06-11
225 double 7 2026-05-11 262 2025-10-03, 2026-05-11
356 distinct 15 2026-04-25 295 2026-04-16, 2026-04-25
056 distinct 6 2026-04-12 321 2025-06-06, 2026-04-12

6. Hit history

Year by year

2023: 5   2024: 6   2025: 6   2026: 3  

Expected vs actual (all-time)

20 hits vs 16.3 expected (uniform) — +3.7

Last 8 hits

DateDrawNumber
2026-09-18Night562
2026-09-12Night526
2026-07-20Day625
2025-09-29Day256
2025-09-26Day562
2025-09-05Night256
2025-04-07Night526
2025-01-22Night256

3b. What actually got drawn after 256

4 occurrences · 40 follow-up draws scanned · "avg" is the average arrival wait in draws.

Draw Time:

Top followers chart All Draws

148 2× · avg +2.5
189 2× · avg +6.5
568 2× · avg +1.0
579 2× · avg +7.5
589 2× · avg +8.5
008 1× · avg +8.0
015 1× · avg +10.0
025 1× · avg +1.0

Across all 4 historical occurrences of 256, the next 10 draws after each were scanned (40 draws total). These are the number families that showed up most often — "count" is total appearances, "covered" is how many of the 4 occurrences it appeared in.

#FamilyTypeTimes drawn ≤10 afterCoveredWithin 1 drawWithin 3 drawsAvg arrival wait
1 148 distinct 2 (random ≈ 0.2) 2/4 0 2 2.5 draws
2 189 distinct 2 (random ≈ 0.2) 2/4 0 0 6.5 draws
3 568 distinct 2 (random ≈ 0.2) 1/4 1 1 1.0 draws
4 579 distinct 2 (random ≈ 0.2) 2/4 0 0 7.5 draws
5 589 distinct 2 (random ≈ 0.2) 2/4 0 0 8.5 draws
6 008 double 1 (random ≈ 0.2) 1/4 0 0 8.0 draws
7 015 distinct 1 (random ≈ 0.2) 1/4 0 0 10.0 draws
8 025 distinct 1 (random ≈ 0.2) 1/4 1 1 1.0 draws

Follow history — every time family 256 was drawn

All Draws (20)

Occurrence-by-occurrence log: each of the 20 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)
562 2026-09-18 · Night 299 +1 013 +2
526 2026-09-12 · Night 238 +1 446 +2 179 +3 234 +4 578 +5 226 +6 058 +7 167 +8 135 +9 268 +10
625 2026-07-20 · Day 179 +1 259 +2 122 +3 458 +4 129 +5 568 +6 267 +7 169 +8 678 +9 577 +10
256 2025-09-29 · Day 025 +1 149 +2 148 +3 133 +4 389 +5 046 +6 044 +7 008 +8 225 +9 015 +10
562 2025-09-26 · Day 126 +1 358 +2 479 +3 128 +4 277 +5 256 +6 025 +7 149 +8 148 +9 133 +10
256 2025-09-05 · Night 568 +1 249 +2 679 +3 336 +5 579 +6 189 +7 589 +8 166 +9 226 +10
526 2025-04-07 · Night 247 +1 266 +2 368 +3 369 +4 679 +5 399 +6 457 +7 289 +8 059 +9 559 +10
256 2025-01-22 · Night 047 +1 148 +2 267 +3 048 +4 344 +5 189 +6 469 +7 378 +8 579 +9 169 +10
526 2025-01-06 · Night 018 +1 289 +2 137 +3 089 +4 247 +6 238 +7 278 +8 047 +9 357 +10
265 2024-10-07 · Night 556 +1 789 +2 014 +3 058 +4 489 +5 125 +6 027 +7 889 +8 112 +9 047 +10

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

RuleTargetPast triggersHit ≤ windowRandom baselineAvg waitMedian waitNever ≤10
d5-7-sets
5: look for 7; sets 7&5, 5&2, 7&0, 7&1
digit 7 711 53.0% (≤2d) 49.3% 3.0 2 4%
d3-absence
look for 3 in the draw after 9 consecutive draws without it
digit 3 181 50.8% (≤2d) 47.2% 3.0 2 4%
d6-2-3
6: look for 2 or 3 to follow
digit 3 730 47.8% (≤2d) 47.2% 3.2 2 5%
d6-2-3
6: look for 2 or 3 to follow
digit 2 730 47.7% (≤2d) 48.1% 3.2 3 3%
sum13-14-watch
sums 14 & 13: watch for false trips and more doubles
any double 429 45.7% (≤2d) 45.6% 3.3 3 3%
p56-3-37
56 brings digit 3 and/or pair 37
digit 3 133 43.6% (≤2d) 47.2% 3.2 3 7%
p25-self-13
25 repeats or brings a 13 pair
pair 25 143 14.0% (≤2d) 10.3% 4.4 4 54%
d5-7-sets
5: look for 7; sets 7&5, 5&2, 7&0, 7&1
pair 57 711 11.5% (≤2d) 11.5% 5.0 5 54%
d2-sets
2 drawn in sets: 2&6, 5&2, 7&2
pair 26 760 11.3% (≤2d) 11.4% 5.0 5 57%
d5-7-sets
5: look for 7; sets 7&5, 5&2, 7&0, 7&1
pair 15 711 11.0% (≤2d) 9.8% 5.0 5 59%
d2-sets
2 drawn in sets: 2&6, 5&2, 7&2
pair 25 760 10.9% (≤2d) 10.3% 4.9 5 62%
d5-7-sets
5: look for 7; sets 7&5, 5&2, 7&0, 7&1
pair 25 711 10.8% (≤2d) 10.3% 5.0 5 58%
d2-sets
2 drawn in sets: 2&6, 5&2, 7&2
pair 27 760 9.9% (≤2d) 11.5% 5.2 5 57%
travel-25-89
25 pair travels with pair 89 (reciprocal)
pair 89 143 9.8% (≤2d) 11.2% 5.1 5 55%
d5-7-sets
5: look for 7; sets 7&5, 5&2, 7&0, 7&1
pair 05 711 9.1% (≤2d) 10.7% 5.0 5 58%
p56-3-37
56 brings digit 3 and/or pair 37
pair 37 133 7.5% (≤2d) 11.7% 5.5 5.5 52%
p25-self-13
25 repeats or brings a 13 pair
pair 13 143 5.6% (≤2d) 10.1% 5.9 6 64%

Full rule history in the Signal Lab.