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Oz Lotto · draw

Tuesday, 23 May 2017

ResultOz Lotto

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 4
  3. 12
  4. 17
  5. 20
  6. 22
  7. 38
  8. 16
  9. 35

JackpotA$30,000,000

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

Rules7/45 + 2/45 · Jan 2009 – May 2022draw 438 of 697 under them

← 2017-05-16All recent draws2017-05-30 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:36 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed2 4 12 17 20 22 38 + 16 3529 Aug 2026, 09:26 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Oz Lotto was a 7/45 + 2/45 · Jan 2009 – May 2022 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 437 draws before it — not against today’s pool.

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This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 23 May 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

33oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 33 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 12% of every possible ticket.

  • sum8th
  • odd2th
  • low97th
  • widest gap76th
  • neighbours17th
  • spread54th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 68 of each

272times
458times
1264times
1767times
2076times
2274times
3858times

Every number was expected about that many times after 437 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.

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Its nearest twin

Shares 4 of 7 numbers (2, 17, 22, 38) with the draw of 2 May 2017 — its closest relative in 437 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 95% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 May 2017): 22 carried over. Chance says 72% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

115

The numbers add up to 115 — the 7th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 161. No two numbers side by side. 66% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

4 had not appeared for 11 draws. A number waits about 6 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 1.5× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 64% of the jackpot.

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

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Prize breakdown · 2017-05-23

  • Lines in play≈ 31Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid outA$12.2Mto 558k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 56lines took a prize
  • Match 70 winnerschance said 0.69

Where the money went

  • Match 65.8%A$706.5K
  • Match 440%A$4.9M
  • match_3_b45%A$5.5M
  • 3 other tiers9.3%A$1.1M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 70≈ 0.69 by chanceA$30,000,000
  2. match_6_b9≈ 9.6 by chanceA$38,125
  3. Match 6176≈ 173 by chanceA$4,014
  4. match_5_b1,054≈ 1.1k by chanceA$345
  5. Match 59,315≈ 9.1k by chanceA$46.00
  6. Match 4205,074≈ 202k by chanceA$24.00
  7. match_3_b342,578≈ 358k by chanceA$16.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈31M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: match_3_b — 342,578 winners, 4% fewer than the 358k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

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MatchWinnersPrize each
match_3_b342,578A$16.00
Match 4205,074A$24.00
Match 59,315A$46.00
match_5_b1,054A$345
Match 6176A$4,014
match_6_b9A$38,125
Match 70A$30,000,000