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Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 18 May 2011

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 12
  2. 18
  3. 23
  4. 33
  5. 36
  6. 50

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/52 · Jan 2010 – Oct 2012draw 216 of 442 under them

← 2011-05-16All recent draws2011-05-21 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:44 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed12 18 23 33 36 5029 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Lotto was a 6/52 · Jan 2010 – Oct 2012 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 215 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 18 May 2011 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

71oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 71 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 91% of every possible ticket.

  • sum64th
  • odd21th
  • low50th
  • widest gap35th
  • neighbours26th
  • spread46th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 25 of each

1224times
1833times
2327times
3323times
36

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23times
5014times

Every number was expected about that many times after 215 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.

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Its nearest twin

Shares 3 of 6 numbers (12, 23, 36) with the draw of 28 February 2011 — its closest relative in 215 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 May 2011): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

172

The numbers add up to 172 — the 64th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. No two numbers side by side. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

12 had not appeared for 20 draws. A number waits about 9 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.

Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 62% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

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