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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.
Lotto · draw
ResultLotto
Jackpot$1,425,140
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
Rules6/42 · since Apr 2010draw 879 of 2,107 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:40 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 8 September 2018 — 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 88% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 125 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 878 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 4 of 6 numbers (4, 13, 19, 20) with the draw of 13 August 2011 — its closest relative in 878 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 80% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (5 September 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 63% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 123 — the 41th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 129. Side-by-side numbers: 19–20. 56% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →28 had not appeared for 14 draws. A number waits about 7 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 22% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈225k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 6,112 winners, 0% more than the 6.1k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 0 | $1,425,140 |
| Match 5 | 6 | $753 |
| Match 4 | 351 | $48.00 |
| Match 3 | 6,112 | $3.00 |