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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 477 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 476 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 5 December 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 53 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 54% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 67 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 476 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 (3, 8, 10, 43, 47) with the draw of 28 January 2022 — its closest relative in 476 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 8.8% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (1 December 2023): 4 carried over. Chance says 68% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 153 — the 24th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 179. Side-by-side numbers: 3–4. 62% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →43 had not appeared for 21 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 ≈10M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: match_3_b — 42,133 winners, 2% more than the 41k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 3 | 403,202 | CA$5.00 |
| match_3_b | 42,133 | CA$20.00 |
| Match 4 | 40,751 | CA$20.00 |
| match_4_b | 3,090 | CA$49.10 |
| Match 5 | 1,861 | CA$104 |
| match_5_b | 96 | CA$862 |
| Match 6 | 26 | CA$5,301 |
| match_6_b | 0 | CA$137,832 |
| Match 7 | 0 | CA$25,000,000 |