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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$25,000,000
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 293 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 292 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 1 March 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 33 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 12% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 41 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 292 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 5 of 7 numbers (5, 6, 28, 36, 46) with the draw of 23 March 2021 — its closest relative in 292 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 5.5% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (25 February 2022): 28, 46 carried over. Chance says 68% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 211 — the 81th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 179. Side-by-side numbers: 5–6. 62% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →6 had not appeared for 30 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 92% 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 — 2,154 winners, 4% more than the 2.1k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 3 | 447,518 | CA$5.00 |
| match_3_b | 45,910 | CA$20.00 |
| Match 4 | 45,182 | CA$20.00 |
| match_4_b | 3,335 | CA$53.40 |
| Match 5 | 2,154 | CA$105 |
| match_5_b | 96 | CA$1,011 |
| Match 6 | 28 | CA$5,777 |
| match_6_b | 1 | CA$161,749 |
| Match 7 | 0 | CA$25,000,000 |