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Lotto · draw

Monday, 9 May 2016

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 6
  3. 10
  4. 20
  5. 31
  6. 38

Jackpot$7,500,000

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 213 of 1,616 under them

← 2016-05-07All recent draws2016-05-12 →

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 6 10 20 31 3829 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 212 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 9 May 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

37oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 37 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 17% of every possible ticket.

  • sum7th
  • odd5th
  • low79th
  • widest gap15th
  • neighbours26th
  • spread37th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 24 of each

224times
631times
1021times
2025times
31

Prize breakdown · 2016-05-09

  • Lines in play≈ 500kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$158.9Kto 70k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.02

Where the money went

  • Match 411%$17.7K
  • Match 324%$38.7K
  • Match 238%$60.1K
  • 6 other tiers27%$42.5K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.02 by chance

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20times
3823times

Every number was expected about that many times after 212 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 4 of 6 numbers (2, 10, 31, 38) with the draw of 30 November 2015 — its closest relative in 212 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 15% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (7 May 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

107

The numbers add up to 107 — the 7th 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

6 had not appeared for 23 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 →
$7,500,000
  • Match 511≈ 6.8 by chance$1,162
  • Match 4442≈ 381 by chance$40.00
  • Match 37,737≈ 7.5k by chance$5.00
  • Match 260,085≈ 60k by chance$1.00
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot4$1,000
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot44$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot275$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot870$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot926$5.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot0no winners
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈500k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 7,737 winners, 4% more than the 7.5k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$7,500,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot0$0.00
    Match 511$1,162
    Match 4 + Extra Shot4$1,000
    Match 4442$40.00
    Match 3 + Extra Shot44$125
    Match 37,737$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot275$25.00
    Match 260,085$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot870$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot926$5.00
    Totals0—