Saturday Lotto Results 22 August 2026: Winning Numbers and Analysis

Saturday Lotto was drawn on 22 August 2026, with Division 1 shared among 10 winners. Each Division 1 winner received $649,602. A jackpot figure was not available for this draw. The prize pool extended across six divisions, reaching nearly 1.2 million winning entries in total.

The six main winning numbers drawn were 1, 2, 9, 11, 13, and 20. The supplementary numbers were 28 and 45. Every main number fell below 21, making this one of the more tightly clustered draws in the lower end of the 1 to 45 pool. The two supplementary numbers were the only figures drawn above 27.

Division 2 paid $6,923 to each of 90 winners. Division 3 returned $519 across 1,818 entries, while Division 4 distributed $18 to 78,618 players. Divisions 5 and 6 covered the broadest field, with 156,475 entries winning $14 and 954,941 entries winning $8 respectively. The 10-way split at Division 1 reflects a draw where a notable number of tickets matched all six numbers.

All six main numbers fell within the 1 to 31 birthday calendar range, and five of the six were below 14. Draws concentrated this heavily in the low end of the number pool tend to attract a higher density of matching tickets, since birthday-based and low-number selections are among the most commonly played combinations. The 10-way Division 1 split is consistent with that pattern, and no numbers from the under-picked zone above 31 appeared among the main draw.

Outnumber generates number combinations weighted towards the 32 to 45 range and other under-represented selections, with the aim of reducing expected prize sharing if a combination does win. Outnumber does not claim that this approach improves a player's odds of winning a prize. The goal is to avoid combinations that, if successful, are statistically more likely to be shared with a larger number of other winners.