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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$2,500,000
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 1,754 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 18 May 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 23 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 4% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 215 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 1,753 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 (4, 8, 18, 30) with the draw of 31 August 2017 — its closest relative in 1,753 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 82% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (16 May 2026): 8, 18, 30 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 80 — the 1th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. No two numbers side by side. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →14 had not appeared for 5 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 3.5× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 13% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈624k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 799 winners, 32% more than the 605 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 0 | $2,500,000 |
| Match 5 | 31 | $471 |
| Match 4 | 799 | $17.00 |
| Match 3 | 11,020 | $2.00 |
| Totals | 11,850 | — |