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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$157,000,000
The crowdHeld 10% 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 249 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 248 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 8 March 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 52 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 46% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 17 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 248 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 (27, 69) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 26 January 2016 — its closest relative in 248 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (4 March 2016): 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 253 — the 90th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 190. No two numbers side by side. 25% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →66 had not appeared for 44 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 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 64% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈24M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 26,688 winners, 13% fewer than the 31k 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 | 1,103,980 | $1.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 393,960 | $2.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 45,120 | $5.00 |
| Match 3 | 26,688 | $5.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 1,914 | $50.00 |
| Match 4 | 381 | $500 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 25 | $5,000 |
| Match 5 | 2 | $1,000,000 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 1 | $157,000,000 |