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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Set for Life · draw
ResultSet for Life
JackpotA$20,000
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
Rules8/37 + 2/37 · Aug 2015 – Mar 2020draw 650 of 1,690 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:37 UTC.
Set for Life was a 8/37 + 2/37 · Aug 2015 – Mar 2020 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 649 draws before it — not against today’s pool.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 May 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 70 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 91% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 140 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 649 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 →Shares 5 of 8 numbers (3, 7, 14, 16, 35) with the draw of 12 March 2017 — its closest relative in 649 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (16 May 2017): 27 carried over. Chance says 89% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 149 — the 45th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 152. Side-by-side numbers: 16–17. 85% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →16 had not appeared for 8 draws. A number waits about 5 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.
Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →A line like this is played about 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 65% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈1.2M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 7 — 5,143 winners, 20% fewer than the 6.4k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | A$2,000,020 |
| 2 | 0 | A$0.00 |
| 3 | 6 | A$1,708 |
| 4 | 75 | A$72.20 |
| 5 | 325 | A$29.05 |
| 6 | 1,434 | A$18.20 |
| 7 | 5,143 | A$14.05 |
| 8 | 14,775 | A$9.45 |