Megabucks Doubler number frequency, odds and draw history

Megabucks Doubler draws 6 numbers from 44. This page counts 449 draws under the current rules, from November 11, 2023 to September 21, 2026, sold in Massachusetts.

How often each number has been drawn

Across 449 draws each ball should turn up about 61 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 47 and 76. 2 of the 44 balls fall outside it and chance alone would put about 2 there, so this is an ordinary result. 42 balls are indistinguishable from random.

This is the part worth reading twice. A number drawn more often than its neighbours has not become more likely, and the table below is sorted only because people expect it to be. The average wait between appearances for any one ball is 7.3 draws, so a gap several times that long is ordinary rather than overdue.

Ranked by how often each number has been drawn. Ranking is not a signal, it is what any fair draw looks like when you sort it.
Number	Times drawn	Against chance	Draws since last seen
2	75	typical	7
3	73	typical	3
18	73	typical	0
28	73	typical	1
10	71	typical	0
19	71	typical	0
24	71	typical	3
31	70	typical	2
12	69	typical	2
41	68	typical	4
14	67	typical	9
4	66	typical	8
39	66	typical	0
23	65	typical	2
13	64	typical	8
27	64	typical	19
30	64	typical	28
6	63	typical	10
9	63	typical	3
15	63	typical	2
38	63	typical	2
5	62	typical	4
8	62	typical	34
29	62	typical	13
40	61	typical	1
37	60	typical	1
17	59	typical	27
20	59	typical	4
22	59	typical	4
34	59	typical	3
43	58	typical	2
1	57	typical	9
11	57	typical	5
7	56	typical	0
16	56	typical	4
32	53	typical	1
26	52	typical	8
35	52	typical	5
25	51	typical	5
36	51	typical	8
21	48	typical	6
42	47	typical	12
33	46	below the band	5
44	45	below the band	0

The odds

Matching all 6 is 1 in 7,059,052. Every tier is worked from the matrix directly, so these are exact rather than rounded figures copied from a leaflet.

Exact probabilities, worked from the matrix rather than quoted from anywhere.
Match	Chance per ticket
6 of 6	1 in 7,059,052
5 of 6	1 in 30,961
4 of 6	1 in 669
3 of 6	1 in 42
2 of 6	1 in 6
1 of 6	1 in 2

The rules have changed 3 times

Every boundary below was derived from the published draws themselves, by walking them in order and taking the first date no earlier matrix can account for, then checked against the announced change dates. A boundary can only ever be late, never early, which keeps every draw inside the era it is filed under.

This is why the counts above are scoped to the current rules. An all-time count for Megabucks Doubler would mix in draws from a different drum, where balls added later never had a chance to appear, and those balls would read as permanently cold for a reason that has nothing to do with luck.

In effect	Main pool	Bonus pool
November 27, 1982 to April 3, 1991	36	none
April 3, 1991 to May 2, 2009	42	none
May 2, 2009 to November 11, 2023	49	none
November 11, 2023 to today	44	none

The last ten draws

Draw date	Numbers
September 21, 2026	7 · 10 · 18 · 19 · 39 · 44
September 19, 2026	10 · 19 · 28 · 32 · 37 · 40
September 16, 2026	12 · 15 · 23 · 31 · 38 · 43
September 14, 2026	3 · 9 · 24 · 34 · 39 · 43
September 12, 2026	5 · 16 · 20 · 22 · 41 · 43
September 9, 2026	11 · 23 · 25 · 33 · 35 · 39
September 7, 2026	21 · 28 · 31 · 34 · 40 · 44
September 5, 2026	2 · 9 · 12 · 23 · 31 · 34
September 2, 2026	4 · 9 · 13 · 26 · 36 · 38
August 31, 2026	1 · 7 · 13 · 14 · 18 · 38

Where this comes from

Every draw on this page came from the jurisdiction that ran it, and the matrix was derived from that published history rather than copied from a marketing page. The full archive, 4,638 Megabucks Doubler draws in all, ships inside the app and works with no connection at all.

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