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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 851 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 850 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 4 December 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 57 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 63% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 184 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 850 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 (9, 12, 20, 22, 29) with the draw of 24 July 2017 — its closest relative in 850 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (3 December 2017): 14, 20 carried over. Chance says 89% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 162 — the 63th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 152. Side-by-side numbers: 20–21, 21–22. 85% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →12 had not appeared for 12 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 ≈1.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 7 — 4,432 winners, 20% fewer than the 5.5k 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 | 1 | A$4,932 |
| 3 | 2 | A$2,367 |
| 4 | 31 | A$165 |
| 5 | 227 | A$39.20 |
| 6 | 1,085 | A$22.65 |
| 7 | 4,432 | A$15.35 |
| 8 | 12,150 | A$10.80 |