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Lotto Max · draw

Friday, 4 March 2016

ResultLotto Max

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 14
  3. 24
  4. 41
  5. 42
  6. 44
  7. 48
  8. 26

JackpotCA$55,000,000

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 337 of 503 under them

← 2016-02-26All recent draws2016-03-11 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:37 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed4 14 24 41 42 44 48 + 2629 Aug 2026, 09:26 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

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 336 draws before it — not against today’s pool.

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This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 4 March 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

44oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 44 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 30% of every possible ticket.

  • sum88th
  • odd2th
  • low33th
  • widest gap74th
  • neighbours59th
  • spread83th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 48 of each

439times
1440times
2460times
4147times
4245times
4437times
4847times

Every number was expected about that many times after 336 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 →

Its nearest twin

Shares 4 of 7 numbers (4, 14, 24, 41) with the draw of 19 August 2011 — its closest relative in 336 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 81% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (26 February 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 69% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

217

The numbers add up to 217 — the 88th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 41–42. 62% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

44 had not appeared for 25 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 →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 92% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 2016-03-04

  • Lines in play≈ 31Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid outCA$7.8Mto 1.5M winning lines
  • Won something1 in 20lines took a prize
  • Match 70 winnerschance said 0.36

Where the money went

  • Match 6 + Bonus13%CA$1.0M
  • Match 3 + Bonus34%CA$2.7M
  • Match 437%CA$2.9M
  • 2 other tiers16%CA$1.2M
Tier1101001k10k100k1M10MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 70≈ 0.36 by chanceCA$55,000,000
  2. Match 6 + Bonus1≈ 2.5 by chanceCA$1,025,697
  3. Match 6113≈ 102 by chanceCA$4,821
  4. Match 56,581≈ 6.4k by chanceCA$105
  5. Match 3 + Bonus133,264≈ 133k by chanceCA$20.00
  6. Match 4143,735≈ 143k by chanceCA$20.00
  7. Match 31,260,185≈ 1.3M by chance—
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈31M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 5 — 6,581 winners, 2% more than the 6.4k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

Show the published table
MatchWinnersPrize each
Match 70CA$55,000,000
Match 6 + Bonus1CA$1,025,697
Match 6113CA$4,821
Match 56,581CA$105
Match 4143,735CA$20.00
Match 3 + Bonus133,264CA$20.00
Match 31,260,185—
Totals1,543,879—