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Mega Millions · draw

Friday, 21 December 2001

ResultMega Millions

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 16
  3. 18
  4. 19
  5. 43
  6. 9

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/50 + 1/36 · Jan 1999 – May 2002draw 307 of 348 under them

← 2001-12-18All recent draws2001-12-25 →

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 feed3 16 18 19 43 + 929 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 306 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 21 December 2001 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

41oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 41 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 24% of every possible ticket.

  • sum18th
  • odd66th
  • low90th
  • widest gap86th
  • neighbours80th
  • spread72th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 31 of each

327times
1633times
1822times
1916times
43

Prize breakdown · 2001-12-21

  • Paid out$0.0to 0 winning lines
  • Match 50 winners$250.0K
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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29times
Stars · a separate 1-of-36 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each

98times

Every number was expected about that many times after 306 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 3 of 5 numbers (16, 18, 43) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 25 July 2000 — its closest relative in 306 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 77% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 December 2001): 3 carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (3% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

99

The numbers add up to 99 — the 18th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 18–19. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

19 had not appeared for 16 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 1.3× 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.

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—