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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.
Pick 6 · draw
ResultPick 6
Jackpot$9,300,000
The crowdHeld about as often as an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules6/49 · since Jan 2010draw 1,696 of 2,033 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:50 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 3 January 2026 — 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 93% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 208 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 1,695 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 4 of 6 numbers (2, 13, 16, 28) with the draw of 23 November 2015 — its closest relative in 1,695 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 81% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (1 January 2026): 13 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 125 — the 22th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 28–29. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →2 had not appeared for 26 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 →A line like this is played about 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 43% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈611k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 674 winners, 14% more than the 592 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 6 | 0 | $8,700,000 |
| Match 5 | 4 | $4,972 |
| Match 4 | 674 | $28.00 |
| Match 3 | 10,790 | $2.00 |
| Totals | 11,468 | — |