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Lotto · draw

Thursday, 3 May 2018

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 18
  3. 33
  4. 34
  5. 46
  6. 49

Jackpot$12,500,000

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 523 of 1,616 under them

← 2018-04-30All recent draws2018-05-05 →

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 feed4 18 33 34 46 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 522 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 3 May 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

53oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 53 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 50% of every possible ticket.

  • sum76th
  • odd21th
  • low21th
  • widest gap43th
  • neighbours72th
  • spread80th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 60 of each

461times
1858times
3365times
3470times
46

Prize breakdown · 2018-05-03

  • Lines in play≈ 644kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$210.3Kto 91k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 412%$26.1K
  • Match 322%$46.6K
  • Match 237%$77.4K
  • 6 other tiers29%$60.1K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.03 by chance

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59times
4967times

Every number was expected about that many times after 522 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 5 of 6 numbers (4, 18, 33, 46, 49) with the draw of 11 February 2016 — its closest relative in 522 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 0.7% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (30 April 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

184

The numbers add up to 184 — the 75th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 33–34. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

4 had not appeared for 34 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 72% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$12,500,000
  • Match 513≈ 8.7 by chance$1,438
  • Match 4466≈ 491 by chance$56.00
  • Match 39,328≈ 9.6k by chance$5.00
  • Match 277,430≈ 77k by chance$1.00
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot3$1,400
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot51$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot386$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot1,352$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot1,542$5.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot0no winners
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈644k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 9,328 winners, 3% fewer than the 9.6k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$12,500,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot0$0.00
    Match 513$1,438
    Match 4 + Extra Shot3$1,400
    Match 4466$56.00
    Match 3 + Extra Shot51$125
    Match 39,328$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot386$25.00
    Match 277,430$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot1,352$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot1,542$5.00
    Totals0—