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Cowboy Draw · draw

Thursday, 20 August 2020

ResultCowboy Draw

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 14
  3. 15
  4. 22
  5. 25

Jackpot$1,215,000

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

Rules5/45 · since Mar 2015draw 565 of 1,206 under them

← 2020-08-17All recent draws2020-08-24 →

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 feed8 14 15 22 2529 Aug 2026, 09:36 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 August 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

29oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 29 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 9% of every possible ticket.

  • sum14th
  • odd32th
  • low89th
  • widest gap4th
  • neighbours78th
  • spread5th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 63 of each

870times
1455times
1551times
2258times
25

Prize breakdown · 2020-08-20

  • Lines in play≈ 75kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$50.6Kto 6.5k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 11lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.06

Where the money went

  • Match 422%$11.0K
  • Match 318%$9.2K
  • Match 260%$30.4K
Tier1101001k10kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.06 by chance$1,215,000
  2. Match 4

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66times

Every number was expected about that many times after 564 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 3 of 5 numbers (8, 14, 25) with the draw of 6 July 2020 — its closest relative in 564 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 August 2020): nothing carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

84

The numbers add up to 84 — the 13th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 115. Side-by-side numbers: 14–15. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

22 had not appeared for 19 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 2.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
11≈ 12 by chance
$1,000
  • Match 3458≈ 480 by chance$20.00
  • Match 26,081≈ 6.1k by chance$5.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈75k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 6,081 winners, 0% more than the 6.1k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 50$1,215,000
    Match 411$1,000
    Match 3458$20.00
    Match 26,081$5.00
    Totals6,550—