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Lotto · draw

Monday, 23 May 2016

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 5
  3. 15
  4. 38
  5. 43
  6. 45

Jackpot$9,000,000

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 219 of 1,616 under them

← 2016-05-21All recent draws2016-05-26 →

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 5 15 38 43 4529 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 218 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 23 May 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

52oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 52 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 49% of every possible ticket.

  • sum37th
  • odd95th
  • low50th
  • widest gap87th
  • neighbours26th
  • spread75th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 25 of each

126times
528times
1526times
3825times
43

Prize breakdown · 2016-05-23

  • Lines in play≈ 478kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$257.8Kto 67k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.02

Where the money went

  • Match 313%$33.9K
  • Match 222%$57.5K
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot43%$111.8K
  • 7 other tiers21%$54.6K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.02 by chance

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22times
4533times

Every number was expected about that many times after 218 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 (1, 5, 15, 43) with the draw of 31 March 2016 — its closest relative in 218 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 16% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (21 May 2016): 15 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

147

The numbers add up to 147 — the 36th 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

43 had not appeared for 15 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 61% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$9,000,000
  • Match 52≈ 6.5 by chance$4,471
  • Match 4313≈ 365 by chance$59.50
  • Match 36,771≈ 7.1k by chance$5.00
  • Match 257,508≈ 58k by chance$1.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot1$111,775
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot2$1,488
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot30$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot232$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot917$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot1,076$5.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈478k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 6,771 winners, 5% fewer than the 7.1k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$9,000,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot1$111,775
    Match 52$4,471
    Match 4 + Extra Shot2$1,488
    Match 4313$59.50
    Match 3 + Extra Shot30$125
    Match 36,771$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot232$25.00
    Match 257,508$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot917$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot1,076$5.00
    Totals0—