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Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 31 August 2016

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 9
  4. 17
  5. 21
  6. 28

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 · Apr 2010 – Aug 2020draw 667 of 1,077 under them

← 2016-08-27All recent draws2016-09-03 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:46 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed1 2 9 17 21 2829 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Lotto was a 6/40 · Apr 2010 – Aug 2020 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 666 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 31 August 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
  • low79th
  • widest gap12th
  • neighbours63th
  • spread33th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 100 of each

1103times
290times
9115times
17103times
21

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93times
28102times

Every number was expected about that many times after 666 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.

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Its nearest twin

Shares 4 of 6 numbers (1, 2, 21, 28) with the draw of 15 June 2011 — its closest relative in 666 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 78% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 August 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

78

The numbers add up to 78 — the 4th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. Side-by-side numbers: 1–2. 58% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

1 had not appeared for 26 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 2.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% of the jackpot.

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

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