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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$515,000,000
The crowdHeld 18% more 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 372 of 776 under them
Sources3 independent sources agree, 2 official. 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 371 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 21 May 2021 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 39 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 19% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 27 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 371 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 (6, 17, 48) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 10 March 2020 — its closest relative in 371 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 48% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (18 May 2021): nothing carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 98 — the 3th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 178. Side-by-side numbers: 17–18. 26% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →9 had not appeared for 18 draws. A number waits about 14 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 2.0× as often as an average ticket — more 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 ≈33M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 1,043 winners, 23% more than the 848 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 0 plus Bonus Ball | 898,471 | $2.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 391,793 | $4.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 55,708 | $10.00 |
| Match 3 | 63,910 | $10.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 2,690 | $200 |
| Match 4 | 1,043 | $500 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 43 | $10,000 |
| Match 5 | 0 | $1,000,000 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 1 | $515,000,000 |