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Lotto · draw

Thursday, 16 April 2020

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 18
  3. 22
  4. 43
  5. 47
  6. 52

Jackpot$8,750,000

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 829 of 1,616 under them

← 2020-04-13All recent draws2020-04-18 →

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 feed1 18 22 43 47 5229 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 828 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 April 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

57oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 57 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 62% of every possible ticket.

  • sum75th
  • odd50th
  • low50th
  • widest gap80th
  • neighbours26th
  • spread99th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 96 of each

189times
1892times
2286times
43102times
47

Prize breakdown · 2020-04-16

  • Lines in play≈ 496kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$169.8Kto 71k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.02

Where the money went

  • Match 412%$19.8K
  • Match 322%$36.5K
  • Match 235%$59.6K
  • 6 other tiers32%$53.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.02 by chance

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86times
5289times

Every number was expected about that many times after 828 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 (18, 43, 47, 52) with the draw of 10 March 2018 — its closest relative in 828 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 47% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (13 April 2020): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

183

The numbers add up to 183 — the 74th 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

52 had not appeared for 34 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 63% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$8,750,000
  • Match 58≈ 6.7 by chance$1,781
  • Match 4344≈ 378 by chance$57.50
  • Match 37,305≈ 7.4k by chance$5.00
  • Match 259,611≈ 60k by chance$1.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot0$44,513
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot2$1,438
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot38$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot398$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot1,391$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot1,626$5.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈496k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 7,305 winners, 1% fewer than the 7.4k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$8,750,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot0$44,513
    Match 58$1,781
    Match 4 + Extra Shot2$1,438
    Match 4344$57.50
    Match 3 + Extra Shot38$125
    Match 37,305$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot398$25.00
    Match 259,611$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot1,391$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot1,626$5.00
    Totals70,723—