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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 379 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 378 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 23 December 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 63 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 81% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 54 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 378 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 4 of 7 numbers (5, 11, 28, 41) with the draw of 29 January 2016 — its closest relative in 378 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 84% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (16 December 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 69% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 142 — the 17th 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 23 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 1.7× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 75% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈39M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 5 — 8,141 winners, 2% fewer than the 8.3k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 7 | 0 | CA$60,000,000 |
| Match 6 + Bonus | 3 | CA$277,856 |
| Match 6 | 138 | CA$4,891 |
| Match 5 | 8,141 | CA$105 |
| Match 4 | 184,527 | CA$20.00 |
| Match 3 + Bonus | 168,880 | CA$20.00 |
| Match 3 | 1,621,961 | — |
| Totals | 1,983,650 | — |