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Lotto Texas · draw

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

ResultLotto Texas

Single source
  1. 20
  2. 24
  3. 27
  4. 37
  5. 39
  6. 41

Jackpot$30,250,000

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

Rules6/54 · since Jan 2010draw 874 of 2,020 under them

← 2018-05-12All recent draws2018-05-19 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:54 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed20 24 27 37 39 4129 Aug 2026, 09:35 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 May 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

45oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 45 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 32% of every possible ticket.

  • sum73th
  • odd78th
  • low50th
  • widest gap8th
  • neighbours27th
  • spread3th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 97 of each

2084times
24110times
27105times
37104times
39

Prize breakdown · 2018-05-16

  • Lines in play≈ 273kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$30.6Mto 52k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 5lines took a prize
  • Match 61 winnerchance said 0.01

Where the money went

  • Match 699%$30.3M
  • Match 50.3%$96.6K
  • Match 30.3%$95.0K
  • 2 other tiers0.4%$130.1K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 61≈ 0.01 by chance

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95times
41102times

Every number was expected about that many times after 873 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 →

Its nearest twin

Shares 4 of 6 numbers (20, 27, 37, 41) with the draw of 2 March 2016 — its closest relative in 873 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 44% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (12 May 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

188

The numbers add up to 188 — the 73th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 165. No two numbers side by side. 46% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

41 had not appeared for 20 draws. A number waits about 9 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 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 69% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$30,250,000
  • Match 52 rows folded in28≈ 3.0 by chance$1,307
  • Match 42 rows folded in969≈ 179 by chance$53.00
  • Match 32 rows folded in19,717≈ 3.7k by chance$3.00
  • Match 2 with Extra30,798≈ 31k by chance$2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈273k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 19,717 winners, 440% more than the 3.7k 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.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 61$30,250,000
    Match 5 with Extra6$11,307
    Match 522$1,307
    Match 4 with Extra171$153
    Match 4798$53.00
    Match 3 with Extra3,585$13.00
    Match 316,132$3.00
    Match 2 with Extra30,798$2.00
    Totals51,513—