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Lotto · draw

Saturday, 17 March 2012

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 3
  3. 5
  4. 12
  5. 17
  6. 18

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/52 · Jan 2010 – Oct 2012draw 346 of 442 under them

← 2012-03-14All recent draws2012-03-19 →

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 feed1 3 5 12 17 1829 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 345 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 March 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

18oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 18 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 1% of every possible ticket.

  • sum0th
  • odd79th
  • low99th
  • widest gap2th
  • neighbours72th
  • spread1th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 40 of each

140times
341times
543times
1240times
17

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45times
1851times

Every number was expected about that many times after 345 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 (5, 12, 18) with the draw of 14 March 2012 — its closest relative in 345 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 March 2012): 5, 12, 18 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

56

The numbers add up to 56 — the 0th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 17–18. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

17 had not appeared for 25 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 3.9× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 17% of the jackpot.

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

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