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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.
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Latest drawMonday, 12 October 2026
Jackpot$1,000,000
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 13 Oct 2026, 06:10 UTC.
6 numbers from 1–48. 2,585 draws held here since 2010-04-07.
Your numbers, read by every tool
Type the numbers you always play. Has the line ever come up? How close has Megabucks come? What has each number done, what does the line look like, and has the same set turned up anywhere else in the world?
Every tool, for this game
Each one opens with Megabucks already selected. The line under every title is true of this game’s rules right now — not a promise about its next draw.

In 2,585 draws every number is expected about 323 times, and a ball favoured by more than 21% over its share would already have shown — see which ones strayed, and how far chance allows.

A number waits 8 draws on average; 5% of the time it waits 24 or more. It is never “due”.

The 6 numbers add up to about 147, give or take 32. Most tickets sit in that bell — and so do most draws.

50.3% of draws contain two numbers side by side. That is the rules talking, not luck.

1,128 possible pairs, each expected together 34.4 times so far — and about 11 will look “special” by chance alone.

All 48 numbers as a constellation of who appeared with whom — indistinguishable from a shuffled sky.

57% of draws repeat a number from the draw before. A whole draw repeating: 23.8% likely by now.

Sorted, the numbers sit about 7.0 apart on average — and every “spread” you can name is exactly as likely as every other.

It takes about 34 draws for every one of the 48 numbers to appear at least once. The last few are the slow ones.

12,271,512 possible tickets. Every one has a face — and a typicality score you can look up.

Seven independent tests of randomness run live against all 2,585 draws. Any of them can fail; watch whether they do.

The lowest number lands near 7, the highest near 42. Position is a property of sorting, not of the balls.

6/48 rescaled onto the same axes as every other game here. One law, many machines.

Six documented cases of a beaten lottery. Not one involved patterns in past draws.

What the world believes about 7, 8, 13 and 17 — and what every machine says back.

At 30 million tickets, an average line keeps about 37% of a jackpot it wins. Unpopular numbers keep more — and still lose money.

A full wheel of 10 numbers here is 210 tickets. A guarantee is real; a profit is not.

Five folk claims about 6/48 games, each answered with the closed form that kills it — never a tip for the next draw.
Take the record with youRSSJSON feedCSV, every drawDraw nights, in your calendarAPI

Lock a past-only rule, score it on later draws, and compare every hit with the exact 6-of-48 overlap law.

This is a without-replacement ball game; the Digit Laboratory is for Pick 3 and Pick 4.
Not for this game
The Chernoff Map reads the straight tier of a digit game, which counts tickets on one exact number; a ball game has no such row.
Not for this game
This game draws once a day, so it has no second draw to compare its first with.
Not for this gameThis draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 12 October 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 68 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 85% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 323 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,584 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 (10, 16, 27, 48) with the draw of 1 July 2013 — its closest relative in 2,584 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (10 October 2026): 10 carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 142 — the 43th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 147. Side-by-side numbers: 27–28. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →48 had not appeared for 23 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 39% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →The side bet sold beside the ticket. How many people buy it is not published; the prize table gives it away, because a multiplied outcome is reported twice — once for the tickets that paid the extra, once for those that did not.
320 draws, 2019-09-11 to 2026-10-07 · read at m4
This add-on changes the odds rather than the prize, so it has no multiplier to price. Take-up only.
What the top prize has been, draw by draw. It climbs while nobody wins and drops to the floor when somebody does — the sawtooth every rollover game draws.
Happenedwhat chance predicts
Completed waits between wins, against the geometric law those waits follow if every draw is an independent chance at the jackpot. The law takes its one parameter from the waits themselves, so this compares shape, not level.
Open any draw to read it by every tool — the same six readings the latest result gets above, each against what chance predicted at the time.
These waits do not fall away from zero the way the law does — they pile up in the middle. That is what happens when the chance of a win is not the same on every draw of a run: few tickets are sold when the prize is small, and so many when it is enormous that a win becomes close to certain. The wait is more predictable than a constant chance allows, and less predictable than it feels.
| Draws waited | Happened | Chance says |
|---|---|---|
| 0–8 | 0 | 3.8 |
| 9–17 | 2 | 3.1 |
| 18–26 | 6 | 2.6 |
| 27–35 | 3 | 2.1 |
| 36–44 | 0 | 1.7 |
| 45–53 | 3 | 1.4 |
| 54–62 | 0 | 1.1 |
| 63–71 | 2 | 0.9 |
| 72–80 | 3 | 0.8 |
| 81–89 | 1 | 0.6 |
| 90+ | 1 | 2.8 |
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,584 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.
Scored 70 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 89% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 323 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,583 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 6 numbers (10, 20, 43) with the draw of 22 June 2026 — its closest relative in 2,583 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (7 October 2026): 43 carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 150 — the 53th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 147. No two numbers side by side. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →2 had not appeared for 15 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 46% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 33 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 12% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 323 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,582 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 (25, 33, 36, 43) with the draw of 22 May 2024 — its closest relative in 2,582 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (5 October 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 207 — the 97th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 147. Side-by-side numbers: 24–25. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →24 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 →A line like this is played about 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 65% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 63 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 75% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 323 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,581 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 (3, 28, 38, 39) with the draw of 7 November 2018 — its closest relative in 2,581 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (3 October 2026): 39 carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 162 — the 67th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 147. Side-by-side numbers: 38–39. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →3 had not appeared for 13 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 48% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 28 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 7% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 323 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,580 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 (26, 37, 39, 40) with the draw of 26 May 2025 — its closest relative in 2,580 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (30 September 2026): 26, 39 carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 205 — the 96th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 147. Side-by-side numbers: 39–40. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →33 had not appeared for 6 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 62% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 66 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 83% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 322 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,579 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 (10, 13, 26, 38) with the draw of 27 October 2025 — its closest relative in 2,579 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (28 September 2026): 13, 26, 29 carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 155 — the 59th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 147. Side-by-side numbers: 38–39. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →10 had not appeared for 13 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 49% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 61 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 72% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 322 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,578 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 (6, 13, 26, 29) with the draw of 8 April 2020 — its closest relative in 2,578 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (26 September 2026): 46 carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 148 — the 51th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 147. Side-by-side numbers: 28–29. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →28 had not appeared for 22 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 40% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 40 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 21% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 322 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,577 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 (19, 40, 41, 46) with the draw of 25 July 2011 — its closest relative in 2,577 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (23 September 2026): 20 carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 197 — the 94th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 147. Side-by-side numbers: 19–20, 40–41. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →31 had not appeared for 11 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 52% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 42 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 25% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 322 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,576 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 (14, 20, 27, 37) with the draw of 8 March 2023 — its closest relative in 2,576 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (21 September 2026): 13 carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 120 — the 20th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 147. Side-by-side numbers: 13–14. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →27 had not appeared for 11 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 36% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 54 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 53% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 322 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,575 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 (1, 4, 13, 30) with the draw of 9 September 2017 — its closest relative in 2,575 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (19 September 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 120 — the 20th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 147. No two numbers side by side. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →13 had not appeared for 30 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 36% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 38 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 18% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 322 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,574 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 (15, 29, 33, 36) with the draw of 23 November 2015 — its closest relative in 2,574 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (16 September 2026): 43 carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 176 — the 81th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 147. No two numbers side by side. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →29 had not appeared for 14 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 54% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 50 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 44% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 322 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,573 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 (6, 16, 26, 44) with the draw of 1 April 2026 — its closest relative in 2,573 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (14 September 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 170 — the 75th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 147. Side-by-side numbers: 43–44. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →43 had not appeared for 20 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 52% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →