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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$3,050,000
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
Rules6/50 + 1/25 · since Apr 2025draw 206 of 682 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:44 UTC.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 August 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 49 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 41% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 25 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 205 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 (6, 42, 43) with the draw of 16 March 2026 — its closest relative in 205 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (17 August 2026): 42 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 179 — the 77th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 153. Side-by-side numbers: 42–43. 49% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →34 had not appeared for 9 draws. A number waits about 8 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 66% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈234k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 3,531 winners, 9% fewer than the 3.9k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 0 | $3,050,000 |
| Match 5 + Extra Shot | 0 | $203,975 |
| Match 5 | 0 | $8,159 |
| Match 4 + Extra Shot | 4 | $1,488 |
| Match 4 | 179 | $59.50 |
| Match 3 + Extra Shot | 32 | $125 |
| Match 3 | 3,531 | $5.00 |
| Match 2 + Extra Shot | 256 | $25.00 |
| Match 2 | 28,730 | $2.00 |
| Match 1 + Extra Shot | 1,010 | $10.00 |
| Match 0 + Extra Shot | 1,271 | $5.00 |
| Totals | 35,013 | — |