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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$3,721,678
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 279 of 1,752 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 1 September 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 76 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 97% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 34 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 278 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 (5, 30, 45) with the draw of 5 May 2012 — its closest relative in 278 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (29 August 2012): 5 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 141 — the 39th 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 →2 had not appeared for 27 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 39% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈6.9M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 5,962 winners, 11% fewer than the 6.7k 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 | 1 | CA$3,721,678 |
| Match 5 + Bonus | 4 | CA$66,459 |
| Match 5 | 104 | CA$2,112 |
| Match 4 | 5,962 | CA$69.80 |
| Match 3 | 113,147 | CA$10.00 |
| Match 2 + Bonus | 86,454 | CA$5.00 |
| Match 2 | 0 | — |
| Guaranteed Prize Draw | 0 | — |
| Totals | 0 | — |