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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 859 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 858 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 12 December 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 27 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 6% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 186 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 858 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, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19) with the draw of 22 January 2016 — its closest relative in 858 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 23% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (11 December 2017): 5, 18 carried over. Chance says 89% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 96 — the 2th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 152. Side-by-side numbers: 17–18, 18–19. 85% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →14 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 2.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 46% 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 — 5,265 winners, 20% fewer than the 6.6k 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$1,320 |
| 4 | 45 | A$108 |
| 5 | 322 | A$26.40 |
| 6 | 1,310 | A$17.95 |
| 7 | 5,265 | A$12.35 |
| 8 | 13,925 | A$9.05 |