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Every number

Megabucks numbers

How often each number has come up, next to how often chance says it should. Any number opens its own page. Back to Megabucks

This game’s pool size was inferred, not declared

No source told us how many balls this draw uses, so we took the highest number we have actually seen drawn (49). If a ball has never come up, the real pool is larger and every expected frequency below is slightly overstated. Treat the comparison as indicative.

Draws counted
1,908
Expected per number
233.6
Largest deviation
5.49σ
Beyond chance
4
4 numbers deviate beyond what chance explains

Across 1,908 draws, each number is expected about 234 times. 6 numbers look unusual on their own — but testing all 49 numbers at once means about 0.5 should look that way by luck alone, so the threshold tightens to 2.0e-4.

Every number

NumberDrawnExpectedDeviationσLast seenDraws since
3272233.6
+2.682026-10-143
13263233.6
+2.052026-10-076
30263233.6
+2.052026-07-1841
12259233.6
+1.772026-09-1615
29259233.6
+1.772026-10-057
23258233.6
+1.702026-10-191
7256233.6
+1.562026-09-2113
31255233.6
+1.492026-10-172
34255233.6
+1.492026-10-124
36255233.6
+1.492026-09-0221
18254233.6
+1.422026-10-076
35254233.6
+1.422026-10-172
24252233.6
+1.282026-10-143
26252233.6
+1.282026-10-210
28251233.6
+1.212026-10-105
10246233.6
+0.862026-10-210
27245233.6
+0.792026-10-172
37244233.6
+0.722026-10-143
2243233.6
+0.652026-10-105
6243233.6
+0.652026-10-076
38243233.6
+0.652026-10-210
19242233.6
+0.582026-10-191
1240233.6
+0.442026-08-3122
5240233.6
+0.442026-10-057
11240233.6
+0.442026-09-0918
15239233.6
+0.372026-10-191
41239233.6
+0.372026-10-105
39235233.6
+0.102026-09-2810
4231233.6
-0.182026-10-191
17231233.6
-0.182026-10-105
42231233.6
-0.182026-10-210
9230233.6
-0.252026-10-143
20230233.6
-0.252026-09-2810
43229233.6
-0.322026-09-2611
40228233.6
-0.392026-10-210
32227233.6
-0.462026-10-210
44226233.6
-0.532026-10-038
16225233.6
-0.602026-09-1217
8220233.6
-0.952026-10-172
22219233.6
-1.022026-10-124
14218233.6
-1.092026-10-076
25216233.6
-1.232026-09-2312
33216233.6
-1.232026-10-172
21200233.6
-2.352026-09-2810
45185233.6
-3.402023-09-23475
48180233.6
-3.752023-08-30482
47178233.6
-3.892023-10-25466
49176233.6
-4.022023-11-08462
46155233.6
-5.492023-11-08462
What this cannot tell you

Nothing here predicts the next draw. Each draw is independent: a number absent for fifty draws is exactly as likely to appear tonight as one drawn yesterday. The point of comparing against expectation is to show when a difference is ordinary — which, in a fair draw, it almost always is.