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Lotto · draw

Monday, 2 May 2016

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 5
  4. 17
  5. 18
  6. 34

Jackpot$6,750,000

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 210 of 1,616 under them

← 2016-04-30All recent draws2016-05-05 →

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 feed2 3 5 17 18 3429 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 209 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 2 May 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

45oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 45 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 31% of every possible ticket.

  • sum1th
  • odd50th
  • low95th
  • widest gap50th
  • neighbours95th
  • spread23th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 24 of each

223times
318times
527times
1721times
18

Prize breakdown · 2016-05-02

  • Lines in play≈ 533kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$168.3Kto 76k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 411%$18.1K
  • Match 327%$44.7K
  • Match 238%$64.1K
  • 6 other tiers25%$41.4K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.03 by chance

Play these numbers? Read them as your ticket →

28times
3423times

Every number was expected about that many times after 209 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 (5, 17, 34) with the draw of 29 February 2016 — its closest relative in 209 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 96% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (30 April 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

79

The numbers add up to 79 — the 1th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 2–3, 17–18. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

18 had not appeared for 35 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 1.8× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 35% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$6,750,000
  • Match 57≈ 7.2 by chance$1,845
  • Match 4436≈ 406 by chance$41.50
  • Match 38,934≈ 7.9k by chance$5.00
  • Match 264,071≈ 64k by chance$1.00
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot1$1,038
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot49$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot300$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot894$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot981$5.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot0no winners
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈533k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 8,934 winners, 12% more than the 7.9k 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$6,750,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot0$0.00
    Match 57$1,845
    Match 4 + Extra Shot1$1,038
    Match 4436$41.50
    Match 3 + Extra Shot49$125
    Match 38,934$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot300$25.00
    Match 264,071$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot894$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot981$5.00
    Totals0—