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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$5,000,000
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 1,333 of 1,753 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:37 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 8 October 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 62 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 76% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 163 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 1,332 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 (21, 37, 41) with the draw of 24 September 2022 — its closest relative in 1,332 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (5 October 2022): nothing carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 140 — the 38th 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 →5 had not appeared for 10 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 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.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈5.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Gold Ball Jackpot — 1 winners, 100% fewer than the 327k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 0 | CA$5,000,000 |
| Match 5 + Bonus | 2 | CA$134,415 |
| Match 5 | 93 | CA$1,214 |
| Match 4 | 4,819 | CA$94.30 |
| Match 3 | 91,718 | CA$10.00 |
| Match 2 + Bonus | 69,105 | CA$5.00 |
| Match 2 | 645,046 | CA$0.00 |
| Gold Ball Jackpot | 1 | CA$1,000,000 |
| Totals | 810,784 | — |