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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 · draw
ResultLotto
Jackpot$8,500,000
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
Rules6/52 · Jan 2015 – Apr 2025draw 116 of 1,616 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:44 UTC.
Lotto was a 6/52 · Jan 2015 – Apr 2025 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 115 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 26 September 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 74 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 94% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 13 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 115 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 6 numbers (15, 40, 50) with the draw of 6 July 2015 — its closest relative in 115 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 84% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (24 September 2015): 50 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 172 — the 64th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. No two numbers side by side. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →9 had not appeared for 27 draws. A number waits about 9 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 58% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈588k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 8,377 winners, 4% fewer than the 8.8k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 0 | $8,500,000 |
| Match 5 plus Extra Shot | 0 | $0.00 |
| Match 5 | 6 | $2,762 |
| Match 4 plus Extra Shot | 2 | $1,375 |
| Match 4 | 420 | $55.00 |
| Match 3 plus Extra Shot | 30 | $125 |
| Match 3 | 8,377 | $5.00 |
| Match 2 plus Extra Shot | 284 | $25.00 |
| Match 2 | 70,712 | $1.00 |
| Match 1 plus Extra Shot | 993 | $10.00 |
| Match 0 plus Extra Shot | 1,141 | $5.00 |