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Megabucks · draw

Saturday, 17 May 2014

ResultMegabucks

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 22
  5. 27
  6. 45

Jackpot$5,350,285

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/49 · since Jan 2010draw 457 of 1,903 under them

← 2014-05-14All recent draws2014-05-21 →

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 feed8 9 10 22 27 4529 Aug 2026, 09:31 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 May 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

58oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 64% of every possible ticket.

  • sum19th
  • odd48th
  • low77th
  • widest gap71th
  • neighbours94th
  • spread52th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 56 of each

847times
961times
1065times
2250times
27

Prize breakdown · 2014-05-17

  • Paid out$0.0to 0 winning lines
  • Match 60 winners$5.4M
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60$5,350,285
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
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Match 60$5,350,285

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54times
4565times

Every number was expected about that many times after 456 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 (9, 10, 27, 45) with the draw of 31 March 2012 — its closest relative in 456 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 36% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 May 2014): 9 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

121

The numbers add up to 121 — the 19th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 8–9, 9–10. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

22 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 →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 1.9× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 24% of the jackpot.

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

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