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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$216,000,000
The crowdHeld 6% less than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/75 + 1/15 · Oct 2013 – Oct 2017draw 38 of 420 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 5/75 + 1/15 · Oct 2013 – Oct 2017 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 37 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 28 February 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 66 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 83% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 2 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 37 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 2 of 5 numbers (3, 31) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 20 December 2013 — its closest relative in 37 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 71% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (25 February 2014): nothing carried over. Chance says 30% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 201 — the 59th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 190. Side-by-side numbers: 58–59. 25% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →50 had not appeared for 35 draws. A number waits about 15 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 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 47% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈40M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 636 winners, 16% fewer than the 758 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 | 1,872,684 | $1.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 701,323 | $2.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 79,442 | $5.00 |
| Match 3 | 47,983 | $5.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 3,438 | $50.00 |
| Match 4 | 636 | $500 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 39 | $5,000 |
| Match 5 | 1 | $1,000,000 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | $216,000,000 |