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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 539 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 538 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 January 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 45 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 32% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 116 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 538 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 (3, 7, 11, 18, 27) with the draw of 20 January 2017 — its closest relative in 538 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 95% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (25 January 2017): 3 carried over. Chance says 89% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 94 — the 1th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 152. Side-by-side numbers: 6–7, 7–8. 85% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →14 had not appeared for 13 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 3.3× as often as an average ticket — more 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 →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈1.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 7 — 5,968 winners, 20% fewer than the 7.5k 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 | 0 | A$0.00 |
| 3 | 7 | A$1,333 |
| 4 | 68 | A$72.50 |
| 5 | 366 | A$23.50 |
| 6 | 1,550 | A$15.30 |
| 7 | 5,968 | A$11.00 |
| 8 | 15,270 | A$8.30 |