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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$40,000,000
The crowdHeld 9% less than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/70 + 1/25 · Oct 2017 – Apr 2025draw 1 of 776 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 5/70 + 1/25 · Oct 2017 – Apr 2025 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 0 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 31 October 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 72 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 94% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 0 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 0 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 →No earlier draws to compare against yet.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 170 — the 43th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 178. Side-by-side numbers: 52–53. 26% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →Every number here is appearing for the first time.
Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →A line like this is played about 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 33% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈9.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 14,427 winners, 9% fewer than the 16k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 0 plus Bonus Ball | 262,644 | $2.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 112,232 | $4.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 14,536 | $10.00 |
| Match 3 | 14,427 | $10.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 643 | $200 |
| Match 4 | 215 | $500 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 9 | $10,000 |
| Match 5 | 0 | $1,000,000 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | $40,000,000 |