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Megabucks · draw

Wednesday, 26 April 2017

ResultMegabucks

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 4
  3. 9
  4. 16
  5. 24
  6. 31

Jackpot$3,300,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/49 · since Apr 2010draw 737 of 1,728 under them

← 2017-04-22All recent draws2017-04-29 →

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 4 9 16 24 3129 Aug 2026, 09:36 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 26 April 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

26oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 26 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 5% of every possible ticket.

  • sum2th
  • odd20th
  • low94th
  • widest gap5th
  • neighbours25th
  • spread19th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 90 of each

2100times
484times
981times
16110times
24

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79times
3192times

Every number was expected about that many times after 736 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 (4, 16, 31) with the draw of 28 March 2015 — its closest relative in 736 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (22 April 2017): nothing carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

86

The numbers add up to 86 — the 2th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. 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

4 had not appeared for 29 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 3.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 14% of the jackpot.

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

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