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Lotto · draw

Monday, 23 April 2018

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 14
  3. 25
  4. 26
  5. 38
  6. 49

Jackpot$11,500,000

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 519 of 1,616 under them

← 2018-04-21All recent draws2018-04-26 →

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 feed2 14 25 26 38 4929 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 518 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 23 April 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

49oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 49 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 41% of every possible ticket.

  • sum44th
  • odd21th
  • low79th
  • widest gap21th
  • neighbours72th
  • spread88th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 60 of each

265times
1455times
2547times
2660times
38

Prize breakdown · 2018-04-23

  • Lines in play≈ 550kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$174Kto 77k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 412%$21.6K
  • Match 323%$39.7K
  • Match 238%$66.1K
  • 6 other tiers27%$46.6K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.03 by chance

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61times
4966times

Every number was expected about that many times after 518 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 3 of 6 numbers (25, 26, 49) with the draw of 20 July 2017 — its closest relative in 518 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (21 April 2018): 14, 38 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

154

The numbers add up to 154 — the 44th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 25–26. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

26 had not appeared for 14 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 54% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$11,500,000
  • Match 52≈ 7.5 by chance$7,757
  • Match 4376≈ 420 by chance$57.50
  • Match 37,941≈ 8.2k by chance$5.00
  • Match 266,149≈ 66k by chance$1.00
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot1$1,438
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot25$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot347$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot1,123$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot1,317$5.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot0no winners
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈550k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 7,941 winners, 3% fewer than the 8.2k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$11,500,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot0$0.00
    Match 52$7,757
    Match 4 + Extra Shot1$1,438
    Match 4376$57.50
    Match 3 + Extra Shot25$125
    Match 37,941$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot347$25.00
    Match 266,149$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot1,123$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot1,317$5.00
    Totals0—