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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$52,000,000
The crowdHeld 12% 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 295 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 294 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 16 August 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 38 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 17% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 20 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 294 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 (52, 62) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 14 June 2016 — its closest relative in 294 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (12 August 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 222 — the 74th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 190. Side-by-side numbers: 62–63. 25% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →43 had not appeared for 71 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 61% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈16M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 1,231 winners, 18% fewer than the 1.5k 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 | 747,981 | $1.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 269,299 | $2.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 29,904 | $5.00 |
| Match 3 | 18,266 | $5.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 1,231 | $50.00 |
| Match 4 | 217 | $500 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 19 | $5,000 |
| Match 5 | 2 | $1,000,000 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | $52,000,000 |