The Mega Millions Ledger — October 6, 2026 in Numbers
Welcome to the Mega Millions analysis desk. Below we break the last 50 draws into charts and patterns: which numbers dominate, which have vanished, and how the totals are trending.
The result
Official Mega Millions result for October 6, 2026.
Meanwhile 26 keeps rolling — it's one of the hottest numbers of the current window.
Frequency map
The frequency chart below counts every appearance over the past 50 draws — peaks are the current favorites, valleys the quiet zones:
Current leaders: 51 (9×), 26 (8×), 30 (7×), 48 (7×), 17 (6×).
Shape of the draws
Zooming out, the recent draws share some clear structural tendencies:
Across the last 50 draws, the most common odd/even split was 2 odd out of 5 (seen in 38% of draws), with an average of 2.4 odd numbers per line. 3 of the numbers typically landed in the lower half (1–35). 18% of draws contained at least one consecutive pair, and 41% repeated at least one number from the draw before.
Appearances by play-slip section (rows of ten).
Appearances by last digit (·0 through ·9).
Sum trend
Line totals tell their own story. Here is the sum of each draw plotted over time:
Line totals have averaged 185 over the window, ranging from 120 to 288; the middle half of results landed between 153 and 206. Over the most recent 20 draws the total has been drifting upward (regression slope 1.6 per draw around an average of 179).
Gap report
Drought watch: these numbers have stayed off the board the longest:
11 currently leads the absence table at 50 draws without an appearance, followed by 28 (50), 69 (50), 12 (32). On the other side, a neighbor effect showed up in 47% of recent draws — a number one above or below a previous hit appearing next time out.
Two reference sets
As a closing exercise, here are two study sets for the October 9, 2026 drawing — treat them as illustrations of the data, nothing more:
Illustrative only — every combination has the same chance in a random drawing.
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