LotteryOracle
GamesForecastPlaygroundCase filesMy numbers

Loading…

Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.

LotteryOracle

LotteryOracle reports what happened; it does not predict what is next. Every draw is independent — no number is ever "due".

GamesPlaygroundCase filesThe weekDataAboutMethodologyPrivacy
Built byejoyful

Responsible play.A lottery costs more than it pays back; if it stops being fun, help is free and confidential:🇺🇸 1-800-GAMBLERall helplines →

Lotto · draw

Saturday, 5 March 2016

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 16
  3. 33
  4. 36
  5. 41
  6. 47

Jackpot$25,750,000

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 · Jan 2015 – Apr 2025draw 185 of 1,616 under them

← 2016-03-03All recent draws2016-03-07 →

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 feed1 16 33 36 41 4729 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 184 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 5 March 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

54oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 54 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 53% of every possible ticket.

  • sum66th
  • odd79th
  • low21th
  • widest gap58th
  • neighbours26th
  • spread84th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 21 of each

118times
1633times
3320times
3633times
41

Prize breakdown · 2016-03-05

  • Lines in play≈ 794kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$249Kto 111k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.04

Where the money went

  • Match 413%$32.2K
  • Match 323%$56.6K
  • Match 238%$95.4K
  • 6 other tiers26%$64.8K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.04 by chance

Play these numbers? Read them as your ticket →

11times
4718times

Every number was expected about that many times after 184 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 (1, 16, 36) with the draw of 17 October 2015 — its closest relative in 184 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 95% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (3 March 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

174

The numbers add up to 174 — the 66th 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

47 had not appeared for 13 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 72% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$25,750,000
  • Match 57≈ 11 by chance$3,301
  • Match 4550≈ 605 by chance$58.50
  • Match 311,318≈ 12k by chance$5.00
  • Match 295,428≈ 95k by chance$1.00
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot2$1,463
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot49$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot414$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot1,385$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot1,686$5.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot0no winners
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈794k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 550 winners, 9% fewer than the 605 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$25,750,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot0$0.00
    Match 57$3,301
    Match 4 + Extra Shot2$1,463
    Match 4550$58.50
    Match 3 + Extra Shot49$125
    Match 311,318$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot414$25.00
    Match 295,428$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot1,385$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot1,686$5.00
    Totals0—