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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$23,160,576
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 274 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 273 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 24 December 2021 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 78 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 99% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 38 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 273 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 (3, 11, 24, 42) with the draw of 23 April 2021 — its closest relative in 273 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 71% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (21 December 2021): nothing carried over. Chance says 68% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 166 — the 36th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 179. Side-by-side numbers: 24–25. 62% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →11 had not appeared for 14 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 84% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈19M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 5 — 3,330 winners, 2% fewer than the 3.4k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 3 | 732,920 | CA$5.00 |
| match_3_b | 75,130 | CA$20.00 |
| Match 4 | 74,846 | CA$20.00 |
| match_4_b | 5,706 | CA$48.30 |
| Match 5 | 3,330 | CA$105 |
| match_5_b | 153 | CA$983 |
| Match 6 | 61 | CA$4,108 |
| match_6_b | 1 | CA$250,601 |
| Match 7 | 0 | CA$23,160,576 |