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Lotto · draw

Thursday, 26 May 2016

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 6
  3. 9
  4. 18
  5. 21
  6. 41

Jackpot$9,250,000

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 220 of 1,616 under them

← 2016-05-23All recent draws2016-05-28 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:44 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed3 6 9 18 21 4129 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Lotto was a 6/52 · Jan 2015 – Apr 2025 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 219 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 May 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

43oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 43 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 26% of every possible ticket.

  • sum4th
  • odd79th
  • low95th
  • widest gap75th
  • neighbours26th
  • spread46th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 25 of each

320times
632times
918times
1829times
21

Prize breakdown · 2016-05-26

  • Lines in play≈ 670kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$209.2Kto 95k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 411%$22.9K
  • Match 327%$56K
  • Match 239%$80.6K
  • 6 other tiers24%$49.6K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.03 by chance

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19times
4114times

Every number was expected about that many times after 219 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 3 of 6 numbers (3, 6, 18) with the draw of 13 July 2015 — its closest relative in 219 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (23 May 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

98

The numbers add up to 98 — the 4th 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 →

The longest wait in this draw

9 had not appeared for 15 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 →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 2.0× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 32% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$9,250,000
  • Match 516≈ 9.1 by chance$1,038
  • Match 4705≈ 511 by chance$32.50
  • Match 311,208≈ 10.0k by chance$5.00
  • Match 280,616≈ 81k by chance$1.00
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot3$813
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot44$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot364$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot1,035$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot1,130$5.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot0no winners
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈670k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 705 winners, 38% more than the 511 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more 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.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$9,250,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot0$0.00
    Match 516$1,038
    Match 4 + Extra Shot3$813
    Match 4705$32.50
    Match 3 + Extra Shot44$125
    Match 311,208$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot364$25.00
    Match 280,616$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot1,035$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot1,130$5.00
    Totals0—