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Megabucks · draw

Saturday, 20 February 2016

ResultMegabucks

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 7
  3. 12
  4. 17
  5. 27
  6. 36

Jackpot$9,766,509

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/49 · since Jan 2010draw 641 of 1,909 under them

← 2016-02-17All recent draws2016-02-24 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:46 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed4 7 12 17 27 3629 Aug 2026, 09:31 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 February 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

49oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 49 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 40% of every possible ticket.

  • sum8th
  • odd48th
  • low77th
  • widest gap13th
  • neighbours25th
  • spread29th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 78 of each

458times
789times
1290times
1774times
27

Prize breakdown · 2016-02-20

  • Paid out$0to 0 winning lines
  • Match 60 winners$9.8M
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60$9,766,509
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
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Match 60$9,766,509

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81times
3685times

Every number was expected about that many times after 640 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.

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Its nearest twin

Shares 4 of 6 numbers (4, 17, 27, 36) with the draw of 7 April 2010 — its closest relative in 640 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 47% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 February 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

103

The numbers add up to 103 — the 8th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. No two numbers side by side. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

4 had not appeared for 24 draws. A number waits about 8 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 1.7× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 26% of the jackpot.

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

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