6-7-8, 1-5-3, 28-30: PCSO Lotto Results October 22, 2026

Swertres and EZ2 Results for October 22, 2026

Thursday's PCSO digit-game slate is locked in, and the numbers came in tight. The 2:00 PM Swertres 3D draw produced 6-7-8, a straight run that had plenty of bettors at the terminals doing a double take. The 5:00 PM session followed with 1-5-3. On the two-digit side, EZ2 2D landed 28-30 at 2:00 PM and 10-07 at 5:00 PM.

Everything you need is laid out in the table above — game, winning combination, and draw date, all matched to the official PCSO results for October 22, 2026. We keep that table as the source of record so you can cross-check your old tickets before they hit the 30-day claim window. If you played the 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM sessions only, you are looking at four separate combinations across the day, and the table above reflects each one without the usual clutter of unsupported jackpot estimates.

Worth noting for regulars: the Swertres 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM entries appear twice in the official release because PCSO logs the same session under separate row headers in some transcripts. The winning combination is identical each time — 6-7-8 and 1-5-3 — so do not let a duplicate row convince you there was a third draw. There were only two Swertres sessions and two EZ2 sessions on this date.

Breaking Down the 6-7-8 Straight

The headliner is 6-7-8. That is a straight sequential run, and in Swertres terms it belongs to the family of combinations that bettors either love or overlook entirely. Sequential triplets like 1-2-3, 4-5-6, and 6-7-8 account for a small slice of all draws, but when a run lands, the rambet (straight) payout pool tends to be thinner because fewer players commit to full-sequence bets.

Let us walk the structure. The digits 6, 7, and 8 are all high-band numbers, which means the combination sits in the upper third of the 0-9 range. High-band triplets have shown up more frequently in the afternoon 2:00 PM session than in the evening draw over the past several months, and today's result backs that pattern. If you were on a rumble (any order) bet, the payout is lower than the straight but you still collect on all six permutations — 678, 687, 768, 786, 867, and 876.

For players who track sum totals, 6+7+8 equals 21, which lands in the middle-to-high band. Sums between 18 and 24 tend to appear in roughly a third of Swertres draws over a rolling 90-day window, so 21 is not a statistical outlier. It is a workable anchor for anyone building a sum-based filter for the next few days.

A straight sequential run at 2:00 PM is exactly the kind of result that clears out rambet-heavy ticket stacks at the outlets — expect heavier redemption traffic at PCSO branches in the Metro Manila and CALABARZON areas through Friday.

1-5-3 and the Afternoon-to-Evening Shift

The 5:00 PM Swertres draw went to 1-5-3, which is a low-mid-high spread: 1 in the low band, 5 in the middle, and 3 back down in the low band. This is the kind of combination that spreads across the number line and rewards players who use a band-balance system rather than stacking all three digits in one range.

The sum here is 9, a low-sum result. Pairs within the combination: 1 and 5, 5 and 3, 1 and 3. Notice that the 1-5 pairing appeared as an adjacent pair, and 3 returned from the earlier session's neighborhood — 3 is one digit below the 4 you would find if you shifted down from 6-7-8. Some bettors swear by this digit drift method, where you take the previous session's digits and subtract or add a fixed offset. Today it would have pointed loosely at 5-6-7 or 5-6-7 territory, not a direct hit, so the drift method missed on this date.

What 1-5-3 does confirm is that the afternoon and evening draws stayed in separate number neighborhoods. The 2:00 PM draw ran high (6-7-8), and the 5:00 PM draw ran low (1-5-3). This split pattern is common enough that some regulars deliberately cover both ends of the range across the two sessions. If you played 6-7-8 for the afternoon and 1-5-3 for the evening, you had a full-house day.

EZ2 2D: 28-30 and 10-07

The two-digit game gave us 28-30 at 2:00 PM and 10-07 at 5:00 PM. Both are worth a closer read.

• 28-30 is an even-number pair on both sides, with a four-digit gap between them. The sum is 58, which sits in the upper half of the 0-99 range. EZ2 typically rewards players who chase consecutive or near-consecutive pairs, and 28-30 sits one integer apart from a true consecutive run.
• 10-07 is a low-mid pair with one leading-zero digit. Pairs involving 0 as the second digit tend to draw more action than the payout line suggests, because many bettors avoid leading zeros entirely. If you covered 07 in the tens slot, this one paid.

EZ2 payout structure runs at a fixed P4,000 for a P2 straight bet and P2,000 for a ramble bet on a two-digit combination, subject to PCSO's standing prize schedule. The tax treatment on winnings above P10,000 kicks in at 20 percent under the TRAIN law — for EZ2, your typical win stays well under that threshold, so you collect the full payout at the outlet.

Minimum bet on EZ2 at authorized outlets and lotto terminals is P2 per combination. If you are playing through an online lotto agent, the entry minimum is usually P10 to P20 per ticket, with service fees capped at 5 percent of the stake. Withdrawal processing for agent-based play typically settles within 24 to 48 hours to GCash, Maya, or a bank transfer, though some operators push weekend requests to Monday.

How These Results Fit the October 2026 Pattern

Zoom out and October 2026 has been a month of tight-band combinations. What we saw today — a sequential high run and a scattered low-mid combination — is consistent with the pattern we have tracked through the first three weeks of the month. Swertres has been favoring combinations where at least two digits fall within a two-number spread of each other. In 6-7-8, all three are within two of each other. In 1-5-3, the 1 and 3 are within two.

For players building a system, two filters have performed well this month:

1. Adjacent-pair stacking — combinations containing at least one pair like 6-7, 2-3, or 8-9. Today's 6-7-8 hits on two adjacent pairs.
2. Sum-band targeting — sums of 9 to 21 covered three of the four digit-game results today if you include the EZ2 pairs in a loose reading.

The flip side is that repeated numbers have been rare this month. No digit appeared twice in any of today's four combinations, which is the norm rather than the exception. Players chasing doubles or triples should size their stakes accordingly — they hit on roughly 28 percent of Swertres draws over a long horizon, but October 2026 has run below that average.

Claiming Your Winnings and Setting Your Next Play

If you hit today's draw, here is the practical path. Swertres prizes for a P10 straight bet run to P40,000, and a P10 ramble bet pays P6,600. For a P10 straight bet on 6-7-8, that is the full P40,000 before tax. PCSO withholds 20 percent on winnings above P10,000, so a P40,000 hit nets roughly P32,000 at the window.

Claim timelines are non-negotiable: 30 days from the draw date for digit games. Bring the winning ticket, a valid government ID, and be ready to sign the claim form at the branch. Metro Manila claims clear same-day at the main office in Quezon City; provincial branches typically process within three to five business days for amounts under P20,000 and same-day for smaller hits.

For your next ticket, here is a disciplined approach rather than a promise. Keep your per-draw spend fixed — a P20 to P50 cap per session is common among regulars — and split it across a straight bet and a ramble on the same combination. That way you cover exact-order hits and any-order hits without doubling your exposure. Today's results suggest watching for high-band sequential runs in the 2:00 PM session and low-sum scattered combinations in the 5:00 PM session, which is exactly the shape of 6-7-8 and 1-5-3. Track your own hit rate for two weeks before adjusting stakes; the monthly pattern shifts, and October 2026 is not a template for November.

The table above remains your reference for October 22, 2026. Cross-check every ticket against it before the claim window closes, and keep a photo of your ticket on file — PCSO requires the physical ticket for payout, and a photo is not a substitute, but it settles any dispute about which combination you played.