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Lotto Max · draw

Tuesday, 7 January 2020

ResultLotto Max

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 8
  3. 12
  4. 14
  5. 17
  6. 18
  7. 29
  8. 11

JackpotCA$70,000,000

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

Rules7/50 + 1/50 · May 2019 – Apr 2026draw 69 of 722 under them

← 2020-01-03All recent draws2020-01-10 →

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 feed3 8 12 14 17 18 29 + 1129 Aug 2026, 09:26 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Lotto Max was a 7/50 + 1/50 · May 2019 – Apr 2026 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 68 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 7 January 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

36oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 36 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 15% of every possible ticket.

  • sum1th
  • odd35th
  • low97th
  • widest gap21th
  • neighbours60th
  • spread6th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each

39times
88times
122times
148times
178times
1810times
2910times

Every number was expected about that many times after 68 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 3 of 7 numbers (3, 8, 14) with the draw of 29 November 2019 — its closest relative in 68 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 96% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (3 January 2020): 8, 18 carried over. Chance says 68% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

101

The numbers add up to 101 — the 1th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 179. Side-by-side numbers: 17–18. 62% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

17 had not appeared for 9 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 4.1× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 58% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 2020-01-07

  • Lines in play≈ 54Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid outCA$93.8Mto 2.6M winning lines
  • Won something1 in 21lines took a prize
  • Match 71 winnerchance said 0.54

Where the money went

  • Match 775%CA$70.0M
  • match_3_b4.8%CA$4.5M
  • Match 311%CA$10.6M
  • 6 other tiers9.3%CA$8.7M
Tier1101001k10k100k1M10MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 71≈ 0.54 by chanceCA$70,000,000
  2. match_6_b7≈ 3.8 by chanceCA$197,680
  3. Match 6185≈ 159 by chanceCA$3,822
  4. match_5_b536≈ 478 by chanceCA$792
  5. Match 510,257≈ 9.8k by chanceCA$96.50
  6. match_4_b17,550≈ 16k by chanceCA$44.30
  7. match_3_b225,197≈ 218k by chanceCA$20.00
  8. Match 4221,071≈ 218k by chanceCA$20.00
  9. Match 32,121,131≈ 2.1M by chanceCA$5.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈54M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: match_4_b — 17,550 winners, 8% more than the 16k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

Show the published table
MatchWinnersPrize each
Match 32,121,131CA$5.00
match_3_b225,197CA$20.00
Match 4221,071CA$20.00
match_4_b17,550CA$44.30
Match 510,257CA$96.50
match_5_b536CA$792
Match 6185CA$3,822
match_6_b7CA$197,680
Match 71CA$70,000,000