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Megabucks · draw

Saturday, 19 December 2020

ResultMegabucks

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 5
  4. 7
  5. 28
  6. 44

Jackpot$5,900,000

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

Rules6/48 · since Apr 2010draw 1,675 of 2,592 under them

← 2020-12-16All recent draws2020-12-21 →

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 feed1 2 5 7 28 4429 Aug 2026, 09:33 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 19 December 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

44oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 44 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 29% of every possible ticket.

  • sum3th
  • odd50th
  • low79th
  • widest gap86th
  • neighbours69th
  • spread87th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 209 of each

1214times
2200times
5233times
7183times
28

Prize breakdown · 2020-12-19

  • Lines in play≈ 457kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$60.7Kto 11k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 41lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.04

Where the money went

  • Match 517%$10.3K
  • Match 426%$16K
  • Match 4 with Kicker27%$16.3K
  • 3 other tiers30%$18.1K
Tier1101001k10kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.04 by chance

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217times
44194times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,674 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 4 of 6 numbers (1, 5, 7, 28) with the draw of 7 December 2019 — its closest relative in 1,674 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 83% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 December 2020): nothing carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

87

The numbers add up to 87 — the 3th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 147. Side-by-side numbers: 1–2. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

44 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 1.9× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 22% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$5,900,000
  • Match 519≈ 9.4 by chance$544
  • Match 4476≈ 481 by chance$33.60
  • Match 38,556≈ 8.6k by chance$1.00
  • Match 5 with Kicker1$2,175
  • Match 4 with Kicker121$134
  • Match 3 with Kicker1,847$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈457k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 8,556 winners, 0% more than the 8.6k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$5,900,000
    Match 5 with Kicker1$2,175
    Match 519$544
    Match 4 with Kicker121$134
    Match 4476$33.60
    Match 3 with Kicker1,847$4.00
    Match 38,556$1.00
    Totals11,020—