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Lotto · draw

Saturday, 16 April 2016

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 5
  3. 6
  4. 18
  5. 28
  6. 35

Jackpot$1,800,000

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

Rules6/42 · since Apr 2010draw 629 of 2,099 under them

← 2016-04-13All recent draws2016-04-20 →

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 feed3 5 6 18 28 3529 Aug 2026, 09:28 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 April 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

69oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 69 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 87% of every possible ticket.

  • sum11th
  • odd50th
  • low79th
  • widest gap42th
  • neighbours65th
  • spread53th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 90 of each

397times
5101times
685times
18108times
28

Prize breakdown · 2016-04-16

  • Lines in play≈ 246kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$1.8Mto 7.1k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 35lines took a prize
  • Match 61 winnerchance said 0.05

Where the money went

  • Match 698%$1.8M
  • Match 40.9%$17.3K
  • Match 31.1%$20.1K
  • 1 other tier0.3%$4.7K
Tier1101001k10kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 61≈ 0.05 by chance

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93times
3579times

Every number was expected about that many times after 628 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 (3, 5, 6, 35) with the draw of 9 July 2014 — its closest relative in 628 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 69% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (13 April 2016): 18 carried over. Chance says 63% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

95

The numbers add up to 95 — the 11th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 129. Side-by-side numbers: 5–6. 56% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

3 had not appeared for 7 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 13% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$1,800,000
  • Match 56≈ 10 by chance$776
  • Match 4423≈ 443 by chance$41.00
  • Match 36,699≈ 6.7k by chance$3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈246k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 6,699 winners, 0% more than the 6.7k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 61$1,800,000
    Match 56$776
    Match 4423$41.00
    Match 36,699$3.00