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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Mega Millions · draw
ResultMega Millions
Jackpot$15,000,000
The crowdHeld 14% less than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/56 + 1/46 · Jun 2005 – Oct 2013draw 621 of 869 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:47 UTC.
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 620 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 3 June 2011 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 55 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 57% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 55 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 620 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 →Shares 3 of 5 numbers (20, 41, 53) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 30 April 2010 — its closest relative in 620 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 88% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (31 May 2011): nothing carried over. Chance says 39% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 186 — the 89th 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 →49 had not appeared for 36 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 →A line like this is played about 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 20% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈18M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 1,032 winners, 21% fewer than the 1.3k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 0 plus Bonus Ball | 239,689 | $2.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 118,592 | $3.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 18,265 | $10.00 |
| Match 3 | 50,329 | $7.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 1,032 | $150 |
| Match 4 | 960 | $150 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 24 | $10,000 |
| Match 5 | 3 | $250,000 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | $15,000,000 |