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Lotto · draw

Thursday, 12 April 2018

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 8
  3. 25
  4. 29
  5. 31
  6. 46

Jackpot$10,250,000

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

Rules6/52 · Jan 2015 – Apr 2025draw 514 of 1,616 under them

← 2018-04-09All recent draws2018-04-14 →

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 8 25 29 31 4629 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Lotto was a 6/52 · Jan 2015 – Apr 2025 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 513 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 12 April 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

63oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 63 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 77% of every possible ticket.

  • sum30th
  • odd79th
  • low50th
  • widest gap58th
  • neighbours26th
  • spread80th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 59 of each

146times
861times
2546times
2960times
31

Prize breakdown · 2018-04-12

  • Lines in play≈ 690kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$215.7Kto 97k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 412%$26.4K
  • Match 324%$51.5K
  • Match 238%$82.9K
  • 5 other tiers25%$54.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.03 by chance

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56times
4658times

Every number was expected about that many times after 513 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 →

Its nearest twin

Shares 4 of 6 numbers (1, 8, 29, 46) with the draw of 7 May 2016 — its closest relative in 513 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 33% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (9 April 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

140

The numbers add up to 140 — the 29th 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

25 had not appeared for 32 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 1.6× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 38% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$10,250,000
  • Match 59≈ 9.4 by chance$2,098
  • Match 4488≈ 526 by chance$54.00
  • Match 310,305≈ 10k by chance$5.00
  • Match 282,937≈ 83k by chance$1.00
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot36$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot380$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot1,414$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot1,570$5.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot0no winners
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot0no winners
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈690k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 488 winners, 7% fewer than the 526 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$10,250,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot0$0.00
    Match 59$2,098
    Match 4 + Extra Shot0$0.00
    Match 4488$54.00
    Match 3 + Extra Shot36$125
    Match 310,305$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot380$25.00
    Match 282,937$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot1,414$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot1,570$5.00
    Totals0—