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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$5,750,000
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 242 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 241 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 17 May 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 54 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 52% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 28 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 241 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 (7, 37, 42) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 12 May 2014 — its closest relative in 241 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (15 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 176 — the 68th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. No two numbers side by side. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →46 had not appeared for 31 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 65% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈681k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 435 winners, 16% fewer than the 519 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 0 | $5,750,000 |
| Match 5 plus Extra Shot | 0 | $0.00 |
| Match 5 | 10 | $1,841 |
| Match 4 plus Extra Shot | 1 | $1,475 |
| Match 4 | 435 | $59.00 |
| Match 3 plus Extra Shot | 33 | $125 |
| Match 3 | 9,506 | $5.00 |
| Match 2 plus Extra Shot | 256 | $25.00 |
| Match 2 | 78,547 | $1.00 |
| Match 1 plus Extra Shot | 945 | $10.00 |
| Match 0 plus Extra Shot | 1,111 | $5.00 |