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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.
Lotto Max · draw
ResultLotto Max
JackpotCA$35,738,798
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
Rules7/49 + 1/49 · Sep 2009 – May 2019draw 87 of 503 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:37 UTC.
Lotto Max was a 7/49 + 1/49 · Sep 2009 – May 2019 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 86 draws before it — not against today’s pool.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 May 2011 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 73 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 96% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 12 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 86 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 7 numbers (7, 18, 30) with the draw of 20 August 2010 — its closest relative in 86 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (13 May 2011): 7, 14 carried over. Chance says 69% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 173 — the 47th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. No two numbers side by side. 62% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →30 had not appeared for 12 draws. A number waits about 7 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 81% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈22M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 5 — 4,469 winners, 2% fewer than the 4.6k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 7 | 1 | CA$35,738,798 |
| Match 6 + Bonus | 0 | CA$443,925 |
| Match 6 | 60 | CA$7,399 |
| Match 5 | 4,469 | CA$124 |
| Match 4 | 101,005 | CA$20.00 |
| Match 3 + Bonus | 93,165 | CA$20.00 |
| Match 3 | 893,263 | — |
| Totals | 1,091,963 | — |