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Megabucks Plus · draw

Saturday, 1 December 2012

ResultMegabucks Plus

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 12
  3. 16
  4. 20
  5. 23
  6. 2

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/41 + 1/6 · since Apr 2010draw 277 of 1,885 under them

← 2012-11-28All recent draws2012-12-05 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:49 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed2 12 16 20 23 + 229 Aug 2026, 09:32 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 1 December 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

33oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 33 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 12% of every possible ticket.

  • sum10th
  • odd9th
  • low89th
  • widest gap22th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread17th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 34 of each

233times
1229times
1625times
2034times
23

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30times
Stars · a separate 1-of-6 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 46 of each

249times

Every number was expected about that many times after 276 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.

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Its nearest twin

Shares 3 of 5 numbers (12, 20, 23) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 21 April 2012 — its closest relative in 276 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 91% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (28 November 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 50% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (17% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

73

The numbers add up to 73 — the 10th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 105. No two numbers side by side. 42% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

20 had not appeared for 19 draws. A number waits about 8 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.

Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 2.1× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 1% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

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