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Megabucks · draw

Saturday, 16 August 2014

ResultMegabucks

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 41
  4. 44
  5. 46
  6. 47

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/48 · since Apr 2010draw 682 of 2,590 under them

← 2014-08-13All recent draws2014-08-18 →

Where this result came from

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

  • Primarycommercial feed2 3 41 44 46 4729 Aug 2026, 09:33 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 August 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

32oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 32 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 10% of every possible ticket.

  • sum87th
  • odd50th
  • low21th
  • widest gap100th
  • neighbours94th
  • spread95th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 85 of each

283times
384times
4186times
4471times
46

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82times
47103times

Every number was expected about that many times after 681 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 3 of 6 numbers (3, 46, 47) with the draw of 2 June 2014 — its closest relative in 681 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (13 August 2014): 44 carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

183

The numbers add up to 183 — the 86th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 147. Side-by-side numbers: 2–3, 46–47. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.

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The longest wait in this draw

47 had not appeared for 15 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 57% of the jackpot.

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

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