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Megabucks · draw

Saturday, 21 May 2011

ResultMegabucks

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 20
  3. 21
  4. 31
  5. 43
  6. 44

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/49 · since Apr 2010draw 118 of 1,728 under them

← 2011-05-18All recent draws2011-05-25 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:56 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed2 20 21 31 43 4429 Aug 2026, 09:36 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 21 May 2011 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

64oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 64 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 78% of every possible ticket.

  • sum63th
  • odd48th
  • low48th
  • widest gap71th
  • neighbours94th
  • spread78th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 14 of each

214times
2018times
2114times
3119times
43

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16times
4410times

Every number was expected about that many times after 117 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 (2, 21, 31) with the draw of 28 July 2010 — its closest relative in 117 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 89% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 May 2011): 20 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

161

The numbers add up to 161 — the 62th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 20–21, 43–44. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.

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The longest wait in this draw

21 had not appeared for 32 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 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 43% of the jackpot.

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

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