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Mega Millions · draw

Tuesday, 26 May 2009

ResultMega Millions

Single source
  1. 9
  2. 18
  3. 21
  4. 37
  5. 55
  6. 33

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/56 + 1/46 · Jun 2005 – Oct 2013draw 410 of 869 under them

← 2009-05-22All recent draws2009-05-29 →

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 feed9 18 21 37 55 + 3329 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 409 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 26 May 2009 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

65oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 65 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 84% of every possible ticket.

  • sum47th
  • odd90th
  • low66th
  • widest gap47th
  • neighbours34th
  • spread77th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 37 of each

940times
1836times
2134times
3727times
55

Prize breakdown · 2009-05-26

  • 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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33times
Stars · a separate 1-of-46 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each

336times

Every number was expected about that many times after 409 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 (18, 37, 55) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 6 March 2009 — its closest relative in 409 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 75% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (22 May 2009): 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

140

The numbers add up to 140 — the 47th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 143. No two numbers side by side. 32% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

55 had not appeared for 23 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 12% 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—