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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.
AU · ball game
Latest drawSaturday, 10 October 2026
JackpotA$5,895,867
Top prizeWon by one ticket
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 10 Oct 2026, 18:27 UTC.
6 numbers from 1–45, plus 2 from 1–45. 928 draws held here since 2009-01-03.
Your numbers, read by every tool
Type the numbers you always play. Has the line ever come up? How close has Saturday Lotto come? What has each number done, what does the line look like, and has the same set turned up anywhere else in the world?
Every tool, for this game
Each one opens with Saturday Lotto already selected. The line under every title is true of this game’s rules right now — not a promise about its next draw.

In 928 draws every number is expected about 124 times, and a ball favoured by more than 34% over its share would already have shown — see which ones strayed, and how far chance allows.

A number waits 8 draws on average; 4% of the time it waits 23 or more. It is never “due”.

The 6 numbers add up to about 138, give or take 30. Most tickets sit in that bell — and so do most draws.

52.9% of draws contain two numbers side by side. That is the rules talking, not luck.

990 possible pairs, each expected together 14.1 times so far — and about 10 will look “special” by chance alone.

All 45 numbers as a constellation of who appeared with whom — indistinguishable from a shuffled sky.

60% of draws repeat a number from the draw before. A whole draw repeating: 5.1% likely by now.

Sorted, the numbers sit about 6.6 apart on average — and every “spread” you can name is exactly as likely as every other.

It takes about 31 draws for every one of the 45 numbers to appear at least once. The last few are the slow ones.

8,145,060 possible tickets. Every one has a face — and a typicality score you can look up.

Seven independent tests of randomness run live against all 928 draws. Any of them can fail; watch whether they do.

The lowest number lands near 7, the highest near 39. Position is a property of sorting, not of the balls.

6/45 rescaled onto the same axes as every other game here. One law, many machines.

Six documented cases of a beaten lottery. Not one involved patterns in past draws.

What the world believes about 7, 8, 13 and 17 — and what every machine says back.

At 30 million tickets, an average line keeps about 26% of a jackpot it wins. Unpopular numbers keep more — and still lose money.

A full wheel of 10 numbers here is 210 tickets. A guarantee is real; a profit is not.

Five folk claims about 6/45 games, each answered with the closed form that kills it — never a tip for the next draw.
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This is a without-replacement ball game; the Digit Laboratory is for Pick 3 and Pick 4.
Not for this game
The Chernoff Map reads the straight tier of a digit game, which counts tickets on one exact number; a ball game has no such row.
Not for this game
This game draws once a day, so it has no second draw to compare its first with.
Not for this gameThis draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 10 October 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 65% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 124 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 927 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 (2, 16, 33, 43) with the draw of 22 August 2020 — its closest relative in 927 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 73% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (3 October 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 60% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 150 — the 65th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 138. Side-by-side numbers: 15–16. 53% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →16 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 43% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈31M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 5 — 770 winners, 10% fewer than the 855 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 1 | A$5,895,868 |
| Match 5 + Supplementary | 48 | A$11,794 |
| Match 5 | 770 | A$1,113 |
| Match 4 | 40,617 | A$31.35 |
| Match 3 + Supplementary | 108,387 | A$18.35 |
| Match 3 | 598,321 | A$11.25 |
What the top prize has been, draw by draw. It climbs while nobody wins and drops to the floor when somebody does — the sawtooth every rollover game draws.
The jackpot has gone 0 draws without a winner. The typical wait here is 0.0 draws.
Happenedwhat chance predicts
Completed waits between wins, against the geometric law those waits follow if every draw is an independent chance at the jackpot. The law takes its one parameter from the waits themselves, so this compares shape, not level.
Open any draw to read it by every tool — the same six readings the latest result gets above, each against what chance predicted at the time.
| Draws waited | Happened | Chance says |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 919 | 919.0 |
| 1 | 4 | 4.0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 3 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 6 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 7 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 8 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 9 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 10+ | 0 | 0.0 |
Every number was expected about that many times after 927 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.
Scored 70 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 91% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 123 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 926 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 (20, 32, 39, 45) with the draw of 26 April 2014 — its closest relative in 926 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 73% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (26 September 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 60% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 163 — the 79th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 138. No two numbers side by side. 53% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →18 had not appeared for 22 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 39% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 65% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 123 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 925 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 (6, 25, 27, 31) with the draw of 1 June 2019 — its closest relative in 925 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 72% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (19 September 2026): 27 carried over. Chance says 60% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 131 — the 40th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 138. No two numbers side by side. 53% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →6 had not appeared for 7 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 21% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 57 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 63% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 123 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 924 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 (10, 32, 33, 39) with the draw of 16 May 2026 — its closest relative in 924 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 72% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (12 September 2026): 27 carried over. Chance says 60% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 142 — the 55th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 138. Side-by-side numbers: 32–33. 53% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →39 had not appeared for 18 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 39% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 75 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 96% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 123 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 923 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 3 of 6 numbers (3, 9, 27) with the draw of 7 February 2026 — its closest relative in 923 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (5 September 2026): 27, 38 carried over. Chance says 60% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 127 — the 35th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 138. No two numbers side by side. 53% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →3 had not appeared for 6 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 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 17% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 47 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 36% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 123 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 922 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, 38, 40, 43) with the draw of 2 March 2019 — its closest relative in 922 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 72% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (29 August 2026): 17, 27 carried over. Chance says 60% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 170 — the 85th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 138. No two numbers side by side. 53% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →38 had not appeared for 33 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 41% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 39 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 20% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 123 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 921 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 (17, 23, 33, 45) with the draw of 8 October 2022 — its closest relative in 921 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 72% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (22 August 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 60% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 170 — the 85th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 138. No two numbers side by side. 53% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →27 had not appeared for 23 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 36% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 21 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 3% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 123 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 920 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 (1, 2, 13, 20) with the draw of 10 February 2024 — its closest relative in 920 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 72% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (15 August 2026): 2, 13 carried over. Chance says 60% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 56 — the 0th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 138. Side-by-side numbers: 1–2. 53% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →1 had not appeared for 21 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 2.5× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 11% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 56 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 59% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 123 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 919 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 (2, 17, 25, 31) with the draw of 9 March 2024 — its closest relative in 919 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 72% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (8 August 2026): 33 carried over. Chance says 60% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 121 — the 28th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 138. No two numbers side by side. 53% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →25 had not appeared for 10 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 31% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 48 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 40% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 122 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 918 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 (6, 22, 33, 36) with the draw of 13 May 2023 — its closest relative in 918 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 72% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (1 August 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 60% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 151 — the 66th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 138. No two numbers side by side. 53% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →26 had not appeared for 24 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 33% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 74 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 95% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 122 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 917 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 3 of 6 numbers (11, 15, 32) with the draw of 11 April 2026 — its closest relative in 917 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (25 July 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 60% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 133 — the 43th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 138. No two numbers side by side. 53% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →42 had not appeared for 23 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 27% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 20 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 2% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 122 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 916 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 (2, 8, 12, 22) with the draw of 16 June 2018 — its closest relative in 916 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 72% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (18 July 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 60% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 93 — the 7th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 138. No two numbers side by side. 53% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →2 had not appeared for 11 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 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 17% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →