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Megabucks · draw

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

ResultMegabucks

Single source
  1. 7
  2. 21
  3. 36
  4. 42
  5. 44
  6. 49

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/49 · since Apr 2010draw 263 of 1,728 under them

← 2012-10-06All recent draws2012-10-13 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:56 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed7 21 36 42 44 4929 Aug 2026, 09:36 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 10 October 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

57oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 57 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 63% of every possible ticket.

  • sum93th
  • odd48th
  • low20th
  • widest gap50th
  • neighbours25th
  • spread78th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 32 of each

733times
2132times
3626times
4229times
44

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27times
4937times

Every number was expected about that many times after 262 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 (7, 21, 44) with the draw of 28 April 2012 — its closest relative in 262 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (6 October 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

199

The numbers add up to 199 — the 93th 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.

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The longest wait in this draw

49 had not appeared for 22 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 61% of the jackpot.

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

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