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Lotto · draw

Saturday, 16 May 2015

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 8
  3. 14
  4. 16
  5. 22
  6. 31

Jackpot$9,500,000

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 · Jan 2015 – Apr 2025draw 59 of 1,616 under them

← 2015-05-14All recent draws2015-05-18 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:44 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed6 8 14 16 22 3129 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Lotto was a 6/52 · Jan 2015 – Apr 2025 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 58 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 16 May 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

18oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 18 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 1% of every possible ticket.

  • sum4th
  • odd5th
  • low95th
  • widest gap6th
  • neighbours26th
  • spread7th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each

69times
86times
148times
168times
22

Prize breakdown · 2015-05-16

  • Lines in play≈ 785kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$241Kto 111k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.04

Where the money went

  • Match 412%$27.9K
  • Match 326%$63.4K
  • Match 239%$94.4K
  • 6 other tiers23%$55.3K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.04 by chance

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8times
314times

Every number was expected about that many times after 58 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 →

Its nearest twin

Shares 3 of 6 numbers (6, 8, 16) with the draw of 11 May 2015 — its closest relative in 58 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 60% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 May 2015): 8, 14 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

97

The numbers add up to 97 — the 4th 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 →

The longest wait in this draw

22 had not appeared for 8 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 →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 3.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 21% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$9,500,000
  • Match 519≈ 11 by chance$1,059
  • Match 4743≈ 599 by chance$37.50
  • Match 312,686≈ 12k by chance$5.00
  • Match 294,428≈ 94k by chance$1.00
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot3$938
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot49$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot367$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot1,078$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot1,252$5.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot0no winners
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈785k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 743 winners, 24% more than the 599 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$9,500,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot0$0.00
    Match 519$1,059
    Match 4 + Extra Shot3$938
    Match 4743$37.50
    Match 3 + Extra Shot49$125
    Match 312,686$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot367$25.00
    Match 294,428$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot1,078$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot1,252$5.00
    Totals0—