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Mega Millions · draw

Friday, 30 May 2008

ResultMega Millions

Single source
  1. 39
  2. 40
  3. 47
  4. 53
  5. 55
  6. 32

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/56 + 1/46 · Jun 2005 – Oct 2013draw 307 of 869 under them

← 2008-05-27All recent draws2008-06-03 →

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 feed39 40 47 53 55 + 3229 Aug 2026, 09:31 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Mega Millions was a 5/56 + 1/46 · Jun 2005 – Oct 2013 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 30 May 2008 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

11oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 11 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 0% of every possible ticket.

  • sum100th
  • odd90th
  • low1th
  • widest gap2th
  • neighbours82th
  • spread2th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 27 of each

3926times
4033times
4716times
5338times
55

Prize breakdown · 2008-05-30

  • 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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24times
Stars · a separate 1-of-46 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each

324times

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 (39, 53, 55) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 5 May 2006 — its closest relative in 306 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 65% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 May 2008): nothing carried over. Chance says 39% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

234

The numbers add up to 234 — the 100th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 143. Side-by-side numbers: 39–40. 32% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

40 had not appeared for 16 draws. A number waits about 11 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 0.3× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 37% 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—