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Megabucks · draw

Wednesday, 22 January 2014

ResultMegabucks

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 6
  3. 16
  4. 23
  5. 27
  6. 39

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/48 · since Apr 2010draw 594 of 2,590 under them

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Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:52 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed2 6 16 23 27 3929 Aug 2026, 09:33 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 22 January 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

61oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 61 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 71% of every possible ticket.

  • sum15th
  • odd50th
  • low79th
  • widest gap28th
  • neighbours25th
  • spread55th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 74 of each

268times
682times
1676times
2381times
27

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68times
3976times

Every number was expected about that many times after 593 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 (6, 16, 27, 39) with the draw of 7 January 2013 — its closest relative in 593 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 47% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (20 January 2014): nothing carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

113

The numbers add up to 113 — the 15th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 147. No two numbers side by side. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.

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The longest wait in this draw

27 had not appeared for 23 draws. A number waits about 8 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.

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How many people held it

A line like this is played about 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 29% of the jackpot.

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

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