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Megabucks · draw

Wednesday, 17 January 2018

ResultMegabucks

Single source
  1. 15
  2. 17
  3. 23
  4. 33
  5. 36
  6. 39

Jackpot$1,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/49 · since Apr 2010draw 813 of 1,728 under them

← 2018-01-13All recent draws2018-01-20 →

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 feed15 17 23 33 36 3929 Aug 2026, 09:36 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 January 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 31% of every possible ticket.

  • sum65th
  • odd94th
  • low48th
  • widest gap13th
  • neighbours25th
  • spread8th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 99 of each

1584times
1787times
23106times
33103times
36

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85times
39112times

Every number was expected about that many times after 812 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 (17, 23, 33, 36) with the draw of 14 June 2014 — its closest relative in 812 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 55% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (13 January 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

163

The numbers add up to 163 — the 65th 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.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

36 had not appeared for 18 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 58% of the jackpot.

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

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