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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$19,000,000
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 490 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 489 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 19 January 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 62 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 79% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 68 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 489 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 (28, 36, 50) with the draw of 31 March 2023 — its closest relative in 489 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (16 January 2024): nothing carried over. Chance says 68% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 204 — the 75th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 179. Side-by-side numbers: 27–28. 62% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →27 had not appeared for 25 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 89% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈12M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 5 — 2,041 winners, 3% fewer 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 | 455,313 | CA$5.00 |
| match_3_b | 47,855 | CA$20.00 |
| Match 4 | 45,993 | CA$20.00 |
| match_4_b | 3,571 | CA$50.60 |
| Match 5 | 2,041 | CA$113 |
| match_5_b | 87 | CA$1,132 |
| Match 6 | 43 | CA$3,817 |
| match_6_b | 1 | CA$164,126 |
| Match 7 | 0 | CA$19,000,000 |