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Lotto · draw

Thursday, 21 December 2017

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 8
  3. 13
  4. 26
  5. 34
  6. 51

Jackpot$17,000,000

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

Rules6/52 · Jan 2015 – Apr 2025draw 466 of 1,616 under them

← 2017-12-18All recent draws2017-12-23 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:44 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed2 8 13 26 34 5129 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Lotto was a 6/52 · Jan 2015 – Apr 2025 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 465 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 21 December 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

47oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 47 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 35% of every possible ticket.

  • sum24th
  • odd21th
  • low79th
  • widest gap58th
  • neighbours26th
  • spread95th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 54 of each

260times
855times
1351times
2653times
34

Prize breakdown · 2017-12-21

  • Lines in play≈ 760kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$236.9Kto 106k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.04

Where the money went

  • Match 412%$28.1K
  • Match 324%$56.8K
  • Match 239%$91.4K
  • 6 other tiers26%$60.7K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.04 by chance

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61times
5162times

Every number was expected about that many times after 465 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 (8, 26, 34) with the draw of 15 July 2017 — its closest relative in 465 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 December 2017): 8, 13 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

134

The numbers add up to 134 — the 24th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. No two numbers side by side. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

2 had not appeared for 11 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 →

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 56% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$17,000,000
  • Match 515≈ 10 by chance$1,347
  • Match 4550≈ 580 by chance$51.00
  • Match 311,365≈ 11k by chance$5.00
  • Match 291,376≈ 91k by chance$1.00
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot2$1,275
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot63$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot415$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot1,262$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot1,407$5.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot0no winners
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈760k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 550 winners, 5% fewer than the 580 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$17,000,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot0$0.00
    Match 515$1,347
    Match 4 + Extra Shot2$1,275
    Match 4550$51.00
    Match 3 + Extra Shot63$125
    Match 311,365$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot415$25.00
    Match 291,376$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot1,262$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot1,407$5.00
    Totals0—