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The Pick · draw

Wednesday, 18 October 2017

ResultThe Pick

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 5
  3. 12
  4. 29
  5. 37
  6. 42

Jackpot$9,300,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/44 · since Apr 2010draw 788 of 1,962 under them

← 2017-10-14All recent draws2017-10-21 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:39 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed2 5 12 29 37 4229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 October 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

66oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 66 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 81% of every possible ticket.

  • sum39th
  • odd50th
  • low50th
  • widest gap76th
  • neighbours23th
  • spread89th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 107 of each

2115times
5103times
12101times
29114times
37

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112times
42100times

Every number was expected about that many times after 787 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.

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Its nearest twin

Shares 4 of 6 numbers (12, 29, 37, 42) with the draw of 8 July 2017 — its closest relative in 787 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 70% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 October 2017): 2 carried over. Chance says 61% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

127

The numbers add up to 127 — the 39th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 135. No two numbers side by side. 54% of draws have at least one such pair.

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The longest wait in this draw

29 had not appeared for 11 draws. A number waits about 7 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.

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How many people held it

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 25% of the jackpot.

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

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