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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 902 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 901 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 24 January 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 30 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 8% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 195 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 901 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, 16, 21, 24) with the draw of 26 November 2017 — its closest relative in 901 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (23 January 2018): 1, 18 carried over. Chance says 89% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 117 — the 10th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 152. Side-by-side numbers: 1–2, 15–16, 20–21. 85% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →15 had not appeared for 4 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 1.9× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 53% 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 — 4,960 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 | 2 | A$2,663 |
| 3 | 8 | A$639 |
| 4 | 41 | A$135 |
| 5 | 286 | A$33.60 |
| 6 | 1,209 | A$21.95 |
| 7 | 4,960 | A$14.85 |
| 8 | 13,593 | A$10.45 |