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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Canada Lotto 6/49 · draw
ResultCanada Lotto 6/49
JackpotCA$20,595,404
The crowdHeld about as often as an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules6/49 + 1/49 · since Jan 2010draw 271 of 1,751 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:37 UTC.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 4 August 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 43 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 27% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 33 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 270 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.
Frequency Explorer →Shares 3 of 6 numbers (3, 23, 47) with the draw of 29 June 2011 — its closest relative in 270 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (1 August 2012): 29 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 135 — the 32th 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 →23 had not appeared for 20 draws. A number waits about 8 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.
Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →A line like this is played about 1.7× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 27% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈9.8M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 + Bonus — 98,245 winners, 19% fewer than the 121k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 0 | CA$20,595,404 |
| Match 5 + Bonus | 2 | CA$162,997 |
| Match 5 | 178 | CA$1,513 |
| Match 4 | 9,238 | CA$55.20 |
| Match 3 | 161,723 | CA$10.00 |
| Match 2 + Bonus | 98,245 | CA$5.00 |
| Match 2 | 0 | — |
| Guaranteed Prize Draw | 0 | — |
| Totals | 0 | — |