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Set for Life · draw

Saturday, 16 December 2017

ResultSet for Life

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 8
  3. 20
  4. 23
  5. 27
  6. 29
  7. 31
  8. 33
  9. 2
  10. 12

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 863 of 1,690 under them

← 2017-12-15All recent draws2017-12-17 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:37 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed1 8 20 23 27 29 31 33 + 2 1229 Aug 2026, 09:26 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

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 862 draws before it — not against today’s pool.

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This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 December 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

34oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 34 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 13% of every possible ticket.

  • sum77th
  • odd92th
  • low6th
  • widest gap76th
  • neighbours8th
  • spread66th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 186 of each

1170times
8184times
20180times
23192times
27197times
29175times
31190times
33198times

Every number was expected about that many times after 862 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 →

Its nearest twin

Shares 6 of 8 numbers (1, 8, 20, 23, 27, 33) with the draw of 14 May 2017 — its closest relative in 862 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 23% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (15 December 2017): 20 carried over. Chance says 89% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

172

The numbers add up to 172 — the 76th 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 →

The longest wait in this draw

1 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 →

How many people held it

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 →

Prize breakdown · 2017-12-16

  • Lines in play≈ 1.0Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid outA$234.5Kto 18k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 59lines took a prize
  • 10 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • 727%A$64.4K
  • 610%A$23.2K
  • 853%A$124.5K
  • 3 other tiers10%A$22.4K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 10≈ 0.03 by chanceA$2,000,020
  2. 20≈ 0.43 by chanceno winners
  3. 33≈ 5.8 by chanceA$3,045
  4. 5251≈ 305 by chanceA$33.50
  5. 74,397≈ 5.5k by chanceA$14.65
  6. 448A$101
  7. 61,058A$21.95
  8. 811,855A$10.50
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈1.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 7 — 4,397 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.

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MatchWinnersPrize each
10A$2,000,020
20A$0.00
33A$3,045
448A$101
5251A$33.50
61,058A$21.95
74,397A$14.65
811,855A$10.50