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Mega Millions · draw

Tuesday, 15 February 2005

ResultMega Millions

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 16
  3. 20
  4. 21
  5. 38
  6. 10

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/52 + 1/52 · May 2002 – Jun 2005draw 288 of 324 under them

← 2005-02-11All recent draws2005-02-18 →

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 20 21 38 + 1029 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 287 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 15 February 2005 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

57oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 57 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 63% of every possible ticket.

  • sum15th
  • odd34th
  • low90th
  • widest gap49th
  • neighbours81th
  • spread45th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 28 of each

324times
1632times
2028times
2129times
38

Prize breakdown · 2005-02-15

  • 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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24times

Every number was expected about that many times after 287 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 (3, 16, 38) with the draw of 17 September 2004 — its closest relative in 287 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 71% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (11 February 2005): 21 carried over. Chance says 41% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

98

The numbers add up to 98 — the 14th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 133. Side-by-side numbers: 20–21. 34% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

16 had not appeared for 17 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 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 6% 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—