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Lotto · draw

Saturday, 20 February 2016

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 17
  3. 18
  4. 22
  5. 29
  6. 40

Jackpot$2,612,440

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

Rules6/42 · since Apr 2010draw 613 of 2,099 under them

← 2016-02-17All recent draws2016-02-24 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:40 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed8 17 18 22 29 4029 Aug 2026, 09:28 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 February 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

76oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 76 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 96% of every possible ticket.

  • sum57th
  • odd21th
  • low50th
  • widest gap32th
  • neighbours65th
  • spread53th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 87 of each

883times
1796times
18105times
2283times
29

Prize breakdown · 2016-02-20

  • Lines in play≈ 285kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$50.0Kto 8.2k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 35lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.05

Where the money went

  • Match 511%$5.7K
  • Match 442%$21.1K
  • Match 347%$23.3K
Tier1101001k10kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.05 by chance$2,612,440
  2. Match 5

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97times
4089times

Every number was expected about that many times after 612 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 →

Its nearest twin

Shares 4 of 6 numbers (8, 17, 22, 29) with the draw of 22 April 2015 — its closest relative in 612 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 68% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 February 2016): 22 carried over. Chance says 63% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

134

The numbers add up to 134 — the 56th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 129. Side-by-side numbers: 17–18. 56% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

40 had not appeared for 17 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 →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 15% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
10≈ 12 by chance
$565
  • Match 4448≈ 513 by chance$47.00
  • Match 37,759≈ 7.8k by chance$3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈285k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 448 winners, 13% fewer than the 513 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$2,612,440
    Match 510$565
    Match 4448$47.00
    Match 37,759$3.00