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Lotto · draw

Saturday, 25 August 2018

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 8
  3. 24
  4. 26
  5. 27
  6. 43

Jackpot$12,000,000

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 572 of 1,616 under them

← 2018-08-23All recent draws2018-08-27 →

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 feed5 8 24 26 27 4329 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 571 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 25 August 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

73oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 73 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 93% of every possible ticket.

  • sum23th
  • odd50th
  • low79th
  • widest gap50th
  • neighbours72th
  • spread46th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 66 of each

563times
865times
2463times
2665times
27

Prize breakdown · 2018-08-25

  • Lines in play≈ 695kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$218.3Kto 98k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 411%$24.6K
  • Match 325%$54K
  • Match 238%$83.5K
  • 6 other tiers26%$56.1K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.03 by chance

Play these numbers? Read them as your ticket →

67times
4370times

Every number was expected about that many times after 571 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 (5, 8, 24) with the draw of 23 June 2018 — its closest relative in 571 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (23 August 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

133

The numbers add up to 133 — the 23th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 26–27. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

26 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 →
$12,000,000
  • Match 512≈ 9.4 by chance$1,471
  • Match 4573≈ 530 by chance$43.00
  • Match 310,801≈ 10k by chance$5.00
  • Match 283,522≈ 84k by chance$1.00
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot1$1,075
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot60$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot400$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot1,293$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot1,386$5.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot0no winners
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈695k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 573 winners, 8% more than the 530 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$12,000,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot0$0.00
    Match 512$1,471
    Match 4 + Extra Shot1$1,075
    Match 4573$43.00
    Match 3 + Extra Shot60$125
    Match 310,801$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot400$25.00
    Match 283,522$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot1,293$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot1,386$5.00
    Totals0—