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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 876 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 875 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 29 December 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 69 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 90% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 189 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 875 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 (1, 15, 27, 28, 29) with the draw of 23 November 2017 — its closest relative in 875 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (28 December 2017): nothing carried over. Chance says 89% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 159 — the 59th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 152. Side-by-side numbers: 27–28, 28–29. 85% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →5 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 72% 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 — 4,311 winners, 20% fewer than the 5.4k 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 | 4 | A$2,295 |
| 4 | 44 | A$110 |
| 5 | 257 | A$32.90 |
| 6 | 1,081 | A$21.60 |
| 7 | 4,311 | A$15.00 |
| 8 | 12,073 | A$10.35 |