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Megabucks · draw

Saturday, 8 April 2017

ResultMegabucks

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 6
  3. 28
  4. 37
  5. 46
  6. 49

Jackpot$3,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/49 · since Apr 2010draw 732 of 1,728 under them

← 2017-04-05All recent draws2017-04-12 →

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 feed1 6 28 37 46 4929 Aug 2026, 09:36 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 8 April 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

46oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 46 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 33% of every possible ticket.

  • sum69th
  • odd48th
  • low20th
  • widest gap88th
  • neighbours25th
  • spread99th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 90 of each

184times
681times
2888times
3776times
46

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104times
4997times

Every number was expected about that many times after 731 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 (1, 6, 37, 46) with the draw of 23 November 2016 — its closest relative in 731 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 51% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (5 April 2017): 6, 28, 49 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

167

The numbers add up to 167 — the 69th 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

37 had not appeared for 8 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 52% of the jackpot.

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

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