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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$3,750,000
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 287 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 286 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 30 August 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 71 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 90% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 33 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 286 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, 18, 23) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 7 June 2014 — its closest relative in 286 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (28 August 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 135 — the 25th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 7–8. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →47 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 44% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈661k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 434 winners, 14% fewer than the 504 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 | $3,750,000 |
| Match 5 plus Extra Shot | 0 | $0.00 |
| Match 5 | 6 | $2,709 |
| Match 4 plus Extra Shot | 1 | $1,313 |
| Match 4 | 434 | $52.50 |
| Match 3 plus Extra Shot | 27 | $125 |
| Match 3 | 9,612 | $5.00 |
| Match 2 plus Extra Shot | 261 | $25.00 |
| Match 2 | 76,328 | $1.00 |
| Match 1 plus Extra Shot | 803 | $10.00 |
| Match 0 plus Extra Shot | 894 | $5.00 |