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Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 18 May 2016

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 8
  3. 12
  4. 15
  5. 25
  6. 40
  7. 47

Jackpot€4,950,871

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

Rules6/47 + 1/47 · since Oct 2015draw 65 of 1,153 under them

← 2016-05-14All recent draws2016-05-21 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:38 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed4 8 12 15 25 40 + 4729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 May 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

56oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 56 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 60% of every possible ticket.

  • sum10th
  • odd20th
  • low77th
  • widest gap55th
  • neighbours24th
  • spread54th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 8 of each

49times
811times
127times
159times
25

Prize breakdown · 2016-05-18

  • Lines in play≈ 1.1Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out€298.4Kto 33k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 35lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.11

Where the money went

  • Match 417%€50.5K
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball11%€33.6K
  • Match 350%€147.8K
  • 3 other tiers22%€66.4K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.11 by chance

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12times
407times

Every number was expected about that many times after 64 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 3 of 6 numbers (4, 12, 15) with the draw of 9 March 2016 — its closest relative in 64 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 74% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 May 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 58% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

104

The numbers add up to 104 — the 10th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 144. No two numbers side by side. 51% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

12 had not appeared for 20 draws. A number waits about 8 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 1.6× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 21% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
€4,950,871
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.64 by chance€51,084
  • Match 528≈ 26 by chance€1,094
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball31≈ 64 by chance€249
  • Match 41,329≈ 1.3k by chance€38.00
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball960≈ 1.7k by chance€35.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,357≈ 16k by chance€3.00
  • Match 321,118≈ 21k by chance€7.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 960 winners, 42% fewer than the 1.7k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,357€3.00
    Match 321,118€7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball960€35.00
    Match 41,329€38.00
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball31€249
    Match 528€1,094
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0€51,084
    Match 60€4,950,871