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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.
Mega Millions · draw
ResultMega Millions
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/50 + 1/25 · Sep 1996 – Jan 1999draw 108 of 172 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:47 UTC.
Mega Millions was a 5/50 + 1/25 · Sep 1996 – Jan 1999 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 107 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 2 June 1998 — 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 40% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 11 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 107 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 2 of 5 numbers (19, 28) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 10 March 1998 — its closest relative in 107 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (29 May 1998): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 117 — the 37th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 30–31. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →30 had not appeared for 41 draws. A number waits about 10 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 2.7× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 0 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | $2.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | $3.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | $10.00 |
| Match 3 | 0 | $7.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | $150 |
| Match 4 | 0 | $150 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | $10,000 |
| Match 5 | 0 | $250,000 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | — |