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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$16,026,187
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 465 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 464 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 17 August 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 44 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 30% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 66 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 464 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 (12, 27, 28, 29) with the draw of 26 November 2010 — its closest relative in 464 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 90% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (10 August 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 69% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 170 — the 44th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 27–28, 28–29. 62% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →27 had not appeared for 10 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 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 80% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈18M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 + Bonus — 75,173 winners, 2% fewer than the 76k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 7 | 0 | CA$16,026,187 |
| Match 6 + Bonus | 1 | CA$284,887 |
| Match 6 | 68 | CA$4,456 |
| Match 5 | 3,654 | CA$105 |
| Match 4 | 82,691 | CA$20.00 |
| Match 3 + Bonus | 75,173 | CA$20.00 |
| Match 3 | 726,721 | — |
| Totals | 888,308 | — |