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Lotto Max · draw

Friday, 20 July 2018

ResultLotto Max

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 8
  3. 12
  4. 19
  5. 20
  6. 25
  7. 49
  8. 18

JackpotCA$25,024,591

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 461 of 503 under them

← 2018-07-13All recent draws2018-07-27 →

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 feed6 8 12 19 20 25 49 + 1829 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 460 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 20 July 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

40oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 40 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 22% of every possible ticket.

  • sum16th
  • odd33th
  • low97th
  • widest gap96th
  • neighbours59th
  • spread77th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 66 of each

668times
875times
1273times
1978times
2061times
2572times
4952times

Every number was expected about that many times after 460 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 (6, 19, 20, 25) with the draw of 30 August 2013 — its closest relative in 460 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 90% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (13 July 2018): 25 carried over. Chance says 69% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

139

The numbers add up to 139 — the 15th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 19–20. 62% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

49 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 →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 1.9× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 73% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 2018-07-20

  • Lines in play≈ 22Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid outCA$5.3Mto 1.1M winning lines
  • Won something1 in 20lines took a prize
  • Match 70 winnerschance said 0.26

Where the money went

  • Match 59.0%CA$477.2K
  • Match 3 + Bonus37%CA$2.0M
  • Match 440%CA$2.1M
  • 2 other tiers14%CA$730.1K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 70≈ 0.26 by chanceCA$25,024,591
  2. Match 6 + Bonus4≈ 1.8 by chanceCA$88,452
  3. Match 690≈ 75 by chanceCA$4,181
  4. Match 54,879≈ 4.7k by chanceCA$97.80
  5. Match 3 + Bonus98,866≈ 97k by chanceCA$20.00
  6. Match 4107,191≈ 105k by chanceCA$20.00
  7. Match 3925,367≈ 925k by chance—
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈22M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 5 — 4,879 winners, 3% more than the 4.7k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

Show the published table
MatchWinnersPrize each
Match 70CA$25,024,591
Match 6 + Bonus4CA$88,452
Match 690CA$4,181
Match 54,879CA$97.80
Match 4107,191CA$20.00
Match 3 + Bonus98,866CA$20.00
Match 3925,367—
Totals1,136,397—