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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Lotto · draw
ResultLotto
Jackpot$12,200,000
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 1,143 of 1,616 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:44 UTC.
Lotto was a 6/52 · Jan 2015 – Apr 2025 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 1,142 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 18 April 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 51 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 46% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 132 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 1,142 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 →Shares 5 of 6 numbers (7, 11, 36, 43, 50) with the draw of 2 February 2019 — its closest relative in 1,142 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 1.5% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (16 April 2022): 11, 36 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 193 — the 83th 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 →7 had not appeared for 29 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 →A line like this is played about 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 65% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈316k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 5,040 winners, 7% more than the 4.7k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 0 | $12,200,000 |
| Match 5 + Extra Shot | 0 | $27,588 |
| Match 5 | 9 | $1,104 |
| Match 4 + Extra Shot | 1 | $1,288 |
| Match 4 | 256 | $51.50 |
| Match 3 + Extra Shot | 53 | $125 |
| Match 3 | 5,040 | $5.00 |
| Match 2 + Extra Shot | 325 | $25.00 |
| Match 2 | 37,990 | $2.00 |
| Match 1 + Extra Shot | 1,118 | $10.00 |
| Match 0 + Extra Shot | 1,174 | $5.00 |
| Totals | 45,966 | — |