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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$10,000,000
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 700 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 699 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 23 January 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 21 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 2% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 98 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 699 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 (13, 16, 18, 29) with the draw of 13 February 2024 — its closest relative in 699 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 96% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (20 January 2026): 3, 9 carried over. Chance says 68% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 115 — the 4th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 179. No two numbers side by side. 62% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →27 had not appeared for 20 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 2.8× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 68% 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_4_b — 3,857 winners, 11% more than the 3.5k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 3 | 451,596 | CA$5.00 |
| match_3_b | 47,863 | CA$20.00 |
| Match 4 | 49,103 | CA$20.00 |
| match_4_b | 3,857 | CA$40.60 |
| Match 5 | 2,294 | CA$87.00 |
| match_5_b | 143 | CA$598 |
| Match 6 | 32 | CA$4,453 |
| match_6_b | 0 | CA$142,503 |
| Match 7 | 0 | CA$10,000,000 |