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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.
Saturday Lotto · draw
ResultSaturday Lotto
JackpotA$4,275,396
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
Rules6/45 + 2/45 · since Jan 2009draw 193 of 930 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:36 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 8 September 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Where the money went
Every number was expected about that many times after 192 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.
The rings take the ≈49M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 — 1,036 winners, 27% fewer than the 1.4k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | A$855,079 |
| 2 | 47 | A$12,353 |
| 3 | 1,036 | A$1,209 |
| 4 | 60,573 | A$31.30 |
| 5 | 165,095 | A$19.25 |
| 6 | 313,894 | A$13.05 |