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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.
Set for Life · draw
ResultSet for Life
JackpotA$20,000
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
Rules8/37 + 2/37 · Aug 2015 – Mar 2020draw 386 of 1,690 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:37 UTC.
Set for Life was a 8/37 + 2/37 · Aug 2015 – Mar 2020 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 385 draws before it — not against today’s pool.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 26 August 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 36 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 16% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 83 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 385 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 5 of 8 numbers (5, 9, 10, 11, 27) with the draw of 16 June 2016 — its closest relative in 385 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 88% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (25 August 2016): 9, 34 carried over. Chance says 89% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 113 — the 7th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 152. Side-by-side numbers: 4–5, 9–10, 10–11. 85% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →4 had not appeared for 4 draws. A number waits about 5 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 69% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈1.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 7 — 6,493 winners, 20% fewer than the 8.1k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | A$2,000,020 |
| 2 | 2 | A$2,880 |
| 3 | 3 | A$1,843 |
| 4 | 52 | A$115 |
| 5 | 341 | A$30.50 |
| 6 | 1,436 | A$20.00 |
| 7 | 6,493 | A$12.25 |
| 8 | 15,167 | A$10.15 |