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Oz Lotto · draw

Tuesday, 18 December 2018

ResultOz Lotto

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 13
  3. 15
  4. 16
  5. 27
  6. 29
  7. 45
  8. 26
  9. 43

JackpotA$5,000,000

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 520 of 697 under them

← 2018-12-11All recent draws2018-12-25 →

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 feed4 13 15 16 27 29 45 + 26 4329 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 519 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 18 December 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

56oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 56 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 63% of every possible ticket.

  • sum36th
  • odd86th
  • low62th
  • widest gap76th
  • neighbours55th
  • spread86th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 81 of each

476times
1374times
1586times
1685times
2788times
2985times
4593times

Every number was expected about that many times after 519 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 7 numbers (4, 16, 27, 29, 45) with the draw of 24 April 2018 — its closest relative in 519 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 16% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (11 December 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 72% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

149

The numbers add up to 149 — the 35th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 161. Side-by-side numbers: 15–16. 66% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

29 had not appeared for 12 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 76% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 2018-12-18

  • Lines in play≈ 9.4Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid outA$3.6Mto 169k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 56lines took a prize
  • Match 70 winnerschance said 0.21

Where the money went

  • Match 65.8%A$211.6K
  • Match 439%A$1.4M
  • match_3_b45%A$1.7M
  • 3 other tiers9.3%A$337.4K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 70≈ 0.21 by chanceA$5,000,000
  2. match_6_b2≈ 2.9 by chanceA$51,383
  3. Match 642≈ 52 by chanceA$5,038
  4. match_5_b338≈ 316 by chanceA$322
  5. Match 52,925≈ 2.7k by chanceA$43.00
  6. Match 462,099≈ 61k by chanceA$23.00
  7. match_3_b103,148≈ 108k by chanceA$16.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈9.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 5 — 2,925 winners, 7% more than the 2.7k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

Show the published table
MatchWinnersPrize each
match_3_b103,148A$16.00
Match 462,099A$23.00
Match 52,925A$43.00
match_5_b338A$322
Match 642A$5,038
match_6_b2A$51,383
Match 70A$5,000,000