the draws of the mega-sena are held twice a week, on wednesdays at 20:00 brasilia time and saturdays at 20:00 brasilia time. the wednesday draw is televised (with a 25-minute delay) on redetv at 20:25 of that day. the drawings consist of picking balls from 2 spinning spherical cages. they are picked in pairs, in order to form a 2 digit decimal number from 01 to 60. the first cage has balls ranging from 0 to 5 for the first digit, and the other one passos balls ranging from 0 to 9 to be used in the second digit. in the event of the number 00 showing up, it will be replaced by the number 60 for meu purposes. when 6 unique 2 digit numbers are drawn, the drawing is concluded.