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Megabucks · draw

Wednesday, 21 March 2018

ResultMegabucks

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 8
  3. 16
  4. 26
  5. 30
  6. 43

Jackpot$1,700,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/49 · since Apr 2010draw 831 of 1,728 under them

← 2018-03-17All recent draws2018-03-24 →

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 feed1 8 16 26 30 4329 Aug 2026, 09:36 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 21 March 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

57oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 57 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 62% of every possible ticket.

  • sum22th
  • odd20th
  • low48th
  • widest gap33th
  • neighbours25th
  • spread78th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 102 of each

196times
8118times
16119times
2699times
30

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108times
43116times

Every number was expected about that many times after 830 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 (8, 16, 30, 43) with the draw of 29 September 2012 — its closest relative in 830 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 56% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 March 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

124

The numbers add up to 124 — the 21th 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

1 had not appeared for 13 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 1.6× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 28% of the jackpot.

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

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