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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Hoosier Lotto · draw
ResultHoosier Lotto
Jackpot$17,300,000
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
Rules6/48 · since Jan 2010draw 913 of 2,293 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:45 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 29 September 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 80 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 98% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 114 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 912 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 →Shares 4 of 6 numbers (5, 18, 19, 43) with the draw of 8 January 2014 — its closest relative in 912 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 62% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (26 September 2018): 38 carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 159 — the 64th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 147. Side-by-side numbers: 18–19. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →5 had not appeared for 13 draws. A number waits about 8 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.
Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →A line like this is played about 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 52% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈302k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 14,980 winners, 165% more than the 5.7k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 0 | $17,300,000 |
| Match 5 | 6 | $500 |
| Match 4 | 855 | $20.00 |
| Match 3 | 14,980 | $2.00 |
| Match 2 | 41,377 | $0.00 |
| Totals | 57,218 | — |