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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$60,000,000
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
Rules7/49 + 1/49 · Sep 2009 – May 2019draw 327 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 326 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 25 December 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 59 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 70% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 47 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 326 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 5 of 7 numbers (5, 8, 22, 39, 45) with the draw of 5 March 2010 — its closest relative in 326 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 6.7% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (18 December 2015): nothing carried over. Chance says 69% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 140 — the 16th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 8–9. 62% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →5 had not appeared for 17 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 1.5× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 77% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈49M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 + Bonus — 205,611 winners, 2% fewer than the 211k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 7 | 1 | CA$60,000,000 |
| Match 6 + Bonus | 4 | CA$226,882 |
| Match 6 | 169 | CA$4,914 |
| Match 5 | 10,170 | CA$104 |
| Match 4 | 227,790 | CA$20.00 |
| Match 3 + Bonus | 205,611 | CA$20.00 |
| Match 3 | 2,003,220 | — |
| Totals | 2,446,965 | — |