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Mega Millions · draw

Tuesday, 27 July 2004

ResultMega Millions

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 13
  5. 24
  6. 46

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/52 + 1/52 · May 2002 – Jun 2005draw 230 of 324 under them

← 2004-07-23All recent draws2004-07-30 →

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 feed8 10 11 13 24 + 4629 Aug 2026, 09:31 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Mega Millions was a 5/52 + 1/52 · May 2002 – Jun 2005 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 229 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 27 July 2004 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

24oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 24 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 4% of every possible ticket.

  • sum2th
  • odd34th
  • low99th
  • widest gap14th
  • neighbours81th
  • spread2th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 22 of each

823times
1033times
1117times
1319times
24

Prize breakdown · 2004-07-27

  • 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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21times

Every number was expected about that many times after 229 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 (8, 10, 11) with the draw of 9 April 2004 — its closest relative in 229 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 62% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (23 July 2004): nothing carried over. Chance says 41% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

66

The numbers add up to 66 — the 2th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 133. Side-by-side numbers: 10–11. 34% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

24 had not appeared for 14 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 2.6× 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 →
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—