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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
Jackpot£3,600,000
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
Rules5/47 + 1/10 · since Mar 2019draw 711 of 792 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:38 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 5 January 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 61 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 75% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 76 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 710 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 3 of 5 numbers (4, 33, 36) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 30 January 2020 — its closest relative in 710 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (1 January 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 45% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (10% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 127 — the 59th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 120. Side-by-side numbers: 32–33. 37% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →32 had not appeared for 10 draws. A number waits about 9 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 9% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 plus Bonus Ball — 16,949 winners, 12% more than the 15k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 2 | 136,622 | £5.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 16,949 | £10.00 |
| Match 3 | 9,568 | £20.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 1,180 | £30.00 |
| Match 4 | 210 | £50.00 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 29 | £250 |
| Match 5 | 0 | £120,000 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | £3,600,000 |