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Set for Life · draw

Saturday, 22 December 2018

ResultSet for Life

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 9
  3. 12
  4. 18
  5. 22
  6. 28
  7. 33
  8. 37
  9. 15
  10. 30

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 1,234 of 1,690 under them

← 2018-12-21All recent draws2018-12-23 →

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 feed3 9 12 18 22 28 33 37 + 15 3029 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 1,233 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 22 December 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

53oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 53 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 53% of every possible ticket.

  • sum64th
  • odd47th
  • low47th
  • widest gap6th
  • neighbours8th
  • spread85th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 267 of each

3283times
9296times
12270times
18261times
22270times
28263times
33288times
37275times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,233 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 5 of 8 numbers (3, 12, 18, 22, 37) with the draw of 16 September 2018 — its closest relative in 1,233 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (21 December 2018): 33, 37 carried over. Chance says 89% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

162

The numbers add up to 162 — the 63th 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

28 had not appeared for 7 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 73% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 2018-12-22

  • Lines in play≈ 1.3Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid outA$258.7Kto 21k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 62lines took a prize
  • 10 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • 727%A$71.0K
  • 610%A$25.6K
  • 853%A$137.4K
  • 4 other tiers10%A$24.7K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 10≈ 0.03 by chanceA$2,000,020
  2. 21≈ 0.54 by chanceA$5,145
  3. 310≈ 7.2 by chanceA$494
  4. 5338≈ 380 by chanceA$27.45
  5. 75,480≈ 6.8k by chanceA$12.95
  6. 466A$80.70
  7. 61,335A$19.20
  8. 813,672A$10.05
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈1.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 7 — 5,480 winners, 20% fewer than the 6.8k 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
21A$5,145
310A$494
466A$80.70
5338A$27.45
61,335A$19.20
75,480A$12.95
813,672A$10.05