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Mega Millions · draw

Friday, 9 April 1999

ResultMega Millions

Single source
  1. 14
  2. 27
  3. 41
  4. 44
  5. 47
  6. 10

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/50 + 1/36 · Jan 1999 – May 2002draw 25 of 348 under them

← 1999-04-06All recent draws1999-04-13 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:47 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed14 27 41 44 47 + 1029 Aug 2026, 09:31 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Mega Millions was a 5/50 + 1/36 · Jan 1999 – May 2002 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 24 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 9 April 1999 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

53oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 53 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 51% of every possible ticket.

  • sum93th
  • odd66th
  • low10th
  • widest gap33th
  • neighbours32th
  • spread42th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 2 of each

144times
274times
412times
445times
47

Prize breakdown · 1999-04-09

  • Paid out$0to 0 winning lines
  • Match 50 winners$250K
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 50$250,000
  2. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0$10,000
  3. Match 40$150
  4. Match 3 plus Bonus Ball

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3times
Stars · a separate 1-of-36 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

101time

Every number was expected about that many times after 24 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 2 of 5 numbers (27, 41) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 30 March 1999 — its closest relative in 24 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 83% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (6 April 1999): 44 carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (3% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

173

The numbers add up to 173 — the 93th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. No two numbers side by side. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

14 had not appeared for 4 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 →

How many people held it

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 13% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
0
$150
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0$10.00
  • Match 30$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0$3.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0$2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0$2.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0$3.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0$10.00
    Match 30$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball0$150
    Match 40$150
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0$10,000
    Match 50$250,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0—