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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 402 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 401 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 11 September 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 34 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 12% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 87 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 401 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 6 of 8 numbers (2, 18, 22, 29, 33, 36) with the draw of 16 December 2015 — its closest relative in 401 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 11% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (10 September 2016): 2, 33, 36, 37 carried over. Chance says 89% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 204 — the 97th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 152. Side-by-side numbers: 36–37. 85% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →27 had not appeared for 5 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 86% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈1.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 7 — 5,521 winners, 20% fewer than the 6.9k 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 | 1 | A$5,500 |
| 3 | 9 | A$587 |
| 4 | 46 | A$124 |
| 5 | 309 | A$32.10 |
| 6 | 1,345 | A$20.40 |
| 7 | 5,521 | A$13.75 |
| 8 | 13,814 | A$10.60 |