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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$10,000,000
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 424 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 423 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 3 November 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 33 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 12% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 60 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 423 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 (17, 18, 20, 40) with the draw of 21 December 2012 — its closest relative in 423 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 87% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (27 October 2017): 16 carried over. Chance says 69% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 196 — the 72th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 16–17, 17–18, 42–43. 62% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →42 had not appeared for 16 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 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 89% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈15M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 5 — 2,978 winners, 4% fewer than the 3.1k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 7 | 0 | CA$10,000,000 |
| Match 6 + Bonus | 2 | CA$126,339 |
| Match 6 | 46 | CA$5,842 |
| Match 5 | 2,978 | CA$115 |
| Match 4 | 68,669 | CA$20.00 |
| Match 3 + Bonus | 63,969 | CA$20.00 |
| Match 3 | 609,438 | — |
| Totals | 745,102 | — |