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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 649 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 648 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 16 May 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 51 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 48% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 140 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 648 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 (6, 12, 25, 27, 32) with the draw of 4 May 2016 — its closest relative in 648 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (15 May 2017): 2 carried over. Chance says 89% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 161 — the 62th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 152. No two numbers side by side. 85% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →12 had not appeared for 9 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 77% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈1.2M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 7 — 4,970 winners, 20% fewer than the 6.2k 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 | 6 | A$1,699 |
| 4 | 40 | A$135 |
| 5 | 301 | A$31.15 |
| 6 | 1,229 | A$21.10 |
| 7 | 4,970 | A$14.45 |
| 8 | 13,048 | A$10.65 |