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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.
2by2 · draw
Result2by2
Jackpot$22,000
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
Rules4/26 · Jan 2010 – Nov 2016draw 1,156 of 2,502 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:39 UTC.
2by2 was a 4/26 · Jan 2010 – Nov 2016 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 1,155 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 9 March 2013 — 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 47% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 178 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 1,155 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 →This exact draw has happened before, on 27 October 2012. Chance gave a match this close a 7.4% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (8 March 2013): nothing carried over. Chance says 51% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 41 — the 18th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 54. Side-by-side numbers: 3–4. 41% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →3 had not appeared for 6 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 1.5× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 0% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈18k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 813 winners, 50% fewer than the 1.6k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 4 | 1 | $22,000 |
| Match 3 | 24 | $100 |
| Match 2 | 813 | $3.00 |
| Match 1 | 7,274 | $0.00 |
| Totals | 8,112 | — |