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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Lotto · draw
ResultLotto
Jackpot$5,500,000
The crowdHeld about as often as an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules6/52 + 1/25 · Oct 2012 – Jan 2015draw 241 of 339 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:44 UTC.
Lotto was a 6/52 + 1/25 · Oct 2012 – Jan 2015 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 240 draws before it — not against today’s pool.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 15 May 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 26 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 5% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 28 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 240 draws, and they scatter around it. Warm means more than expected, cool means fewer — and a cold number arriving is exactly what cold numbers do.
Frequency Explorer →Shares 3 of 6 numbers (18, 19, 20) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 27 January 2014 — its closest relative in 240 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (12 May 2014): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 125 — the 17th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 18–19, 19–20. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →18 had not appeared for 25 draws. A number waits about 9 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.
Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →A line like this is played about 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 42% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈702k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 80,995 winners, 4% fewer than the 84k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 0 | $5,500,000 |
| Match 5 plus Extra Shot | 0 | $0.00 |
| Match 5 | 15 | $1,186 |
| Match 4 plus Extra Shot | 1 | $1,138 |
| Match 4 | 546 | $45.50 |
| Match 3 plus Extra Shot | 27 | $125 |
| Match 3 | 10,147 | $5.00 |
| Match 2 plus Extra Shot | 331 | $25.00 |
| Match 2 | 80,995 | $1.00 |
| Match 1 plus Extra Shot | 1,044 | $10.00 |
| Match 0 plus Extra Shot | 1,089 | $5.00 |