Using Previous Wins to Compare Random Lines in LottoBase
LottoBase Team 27 July 2026 4 min read
Tapping Random Pick gives you a set of numbers in a moment, and most people either accept it or tap again until something feels right. There is a third option, and it is the one the app was built for: look at what that set has actually done across the game’s draw history first. This post walks through that loop on the Numbers tab and explains what the previous-win figures are counting.
Start with a random line
Open the Numbers tab — its on-screen title is Your Numbers — and a set of numbers is already waiting at the top. Random Pick generates a fresh set each time you tap it.
If part of a set appeals to you, long-press each number you want to keep; that locks it, so the next Random Pick reshuffles only the rest. It is how you hold on to two or three numbers that matter to you while letting the app fill in the others.
Switch to Insights and look at the history
The Numbers tab has two views. Results is the default, listing the game’s past draws, most recent first. Switch to the Insights view and the screen describes your selected numbers instead: the Insights Period Selector sets the window with its 3M, 12M and All Draws tabs, and beneath it sit the Win Frequency Pattern — a visual record of when this set of numbers previously won, by prize tier — and the Previous Wins cards, one per tier the set has hit, each showing how many times.
On the Numbers tab, Results lists past draws; Insights reads your selected numbers.
Below those sit the sum of your selected numbers against the average winning sum, the odd/even split and the high/low split — the shape of the line alongside its history.
What a “previous win” is actually counting
This is the part worth being precise about. A prize tier is simply a level of matching: not just the full set, but matching two of the numbers, or three, and so on. When the app reports previous wins, it has checked your exact set against every draw in the chosen period and counted the draws where enough of them came up to reach a tier.
Almost all of those hits will be at the lower tiers. Any particular set of numbers has, in all likelihood, never matched every ball in the game’s history — there are simply too many possible lines for repetition to be common. So a set with, say, eleven previous wins over twelve months has not won eleven prizes of consequence; it has clipped the bottom of the prize table eleven times. That is still an interesting figure, because it varies from line to line, but it is worth knowing what it describes. Nor does any of it change the odds — every line in a draw has exactly the same chance as every other, however it was chosen. Insights report what the draw history did, not what the next draw will do.
Turning it into a comparison
Once you know what the figures mean, the loop is quick. Tap Random Pick, switch to Insights, note what comes back, then tap Random Pick again. After three or four rounds you have a sense of the spread, and the spread is wide: one set will have hit a middle tier a handful of times over the game’s history, the next will have almost nothing against it.
Which you would rather play is a matter of taste, not advantage. Some players like a line with a busy history behind it; others prefer one that has never done anything, on the grounds that it is unspoilt. Both are reasonable, and neither is favoured by the draw. The value of putting the history in front of you is that the choice becomes an informed one.
Mind the window you are looking at
The period matters, and not subtly. All Draws covers far more draws than 3M, so it will naturally report more previous wins for the same set of numbers — a bigger count over a longer history is not a better line. Comparing two sets is only meaningful on the same tab.
All Draws itself has a starting point. By default it runs from a game’s most recent significant rule change rather than its launch, since a rule change can distort the picture: EuroMillions added a twelfth Lucky Star in September 2016, so a Lucky Star 12 counted from 2004 would look far quieter than its neighbours. You can switch a game between Rule Change and Game Launch under Settings → Insights Settings.
Keeping the line you settle on
When a set is one you would actually play, tap Add to Ticket. If you already have a ticket for that game that is not being tracked, the app offers to add the line to it; otherwise it creates a new one. New tickets start as Not Tracking, so you can keep adjusting the lines. Use them to fill in a play slip or an online purchase, then open the bought ticket with Edit and tap Track this Ticket so the app checks it against every draw it is entered in.
The lottery is a game of chance, so play only what you can comfortably afford — but choosing the numbers is half the enjoyment, and it is a more interesting few minutes with the draw history in front of you.