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Megabucks · draw

Wednesday, 20 August 2014

ResultMegabucks

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 10
  3. 19
  4. 22
  5. 24
  6. 48

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/48 · since Apr 2010draw 684 of 2,591 under them

← 2014-08-18All recent draws2014-08-23 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:52 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed2 10 19 22 24 4829 Aug 2026, 09:33 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 August 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

23oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 23 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 3% of every possible ticket.

  • sum25th
  • odd5th
  • low95th
  • widest gap94th
  • neighbours25th
  • spread97th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 85 of each

284times
1082times
1980times
2279times
24

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85times
4884times

Every number was expected about that many times after 683 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 6 numbers (10, 24, 48) with the draw of 16 July 2014 — its closest relative in 683 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 August 2014): nothing carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

125

The numbers add up to 125 — the 25th 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.

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The longest wait in this draw

10 had not appeared for 7 draws. A number waits about 8 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.

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How many people held it

A line like this is played about 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 28% of the jackpot.

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

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