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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$15,000,000
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 179 of 722 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 7/50 + 1/50 · May 2019 – Apr 2026 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 178 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 26 January 2021 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 26 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 5% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 25 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 178 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 3 of 7 numbers (44, 46, 50) with the draw of 20 October 2020 — its closest relative in 178 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (22 January 2021): nothing carried over. Chance says 68% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 294 — the 100th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 179. Side-by-side numbers: 49–50. 62% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →44 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 0.2× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 97% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈11M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 5 — 1,915 winners, 2% fewer than the 1.9k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 3 | 421,242 | CA$5.00 |
| match_3_b | 43,403 | CA$20.00 |
| Match 4 | 42,954 | CA$20.00 |
| match_4_b | 3,247 | CA$52.80 |
| Match 5 | 1,915 | CA$114 |
| match_5_b | 91 | CA$1,028 |
| Match 6 | 31 | CA$5,029 |
| match_6_b | 2 | CA$77,947 |
| Match 7 | 0 | CA$15,000,000 |