Drawing summary
Worth noticing
#39 returned after a long gap
#39 had been missing for 28 drawings—longer than nearly all of its previous absences and 13 drawings short of its longest absence.
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Mega Millions results for
Fri, Oct 29, 2010
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- Drawing date
- Fri, Oct 29, 2010
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Shape of the drawing
How the five main numbers landed
Compared with 556 Mega Millions drawings played earlier under the same number format.
- Main-number sum
- 116 A fairly typical total for this format
- Number span
- 35 A fairly typical spread
- Odd / even
- 2 / 3 This split appeared in about 34% of comparable drawings
- Low / high
- 4 / 1 This balance appeared in about 16% of comparable drawingsLow numbers are 1–28 in this format.
- Largest gap
- 15 A typical largest gap
- Smallest gap
- 2 A typical closest pairing
- Average main number
- 23.2 Near the middle of comparable drawings
- Number bands
- Main numbers grouped in bands of ten
No main numbers formed a consecutive pair.
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Matches compare main-number sum, span, odd/even and low/high balance, consecutive pairs, and adjacent gaps within the same number format. The closest score wins; equally close drawings are ordered newest first.
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Matching odd/even and low/high balances and the same distribution across number bands.
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Matching odd/even and low/high balances and a nearly identical main-number sum.
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Matching odd/even and low/high balances and the same distribution across number bands.
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Matching odd/even and low/high balances and a nearly identical number spread.
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Sources and method
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Source record: New York State Open Data .
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