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Lotto · draw

Saturday, 17 March 2018

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 7
  2. 12
  3. 21
  4. 27
  5. 36
  6. 37

Jackpot$7,500,000

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 503 of 1,616 under them

← 2018-03-15All recent draws2018-03-19 →

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 feed7 12 21 27 36 3729 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 502 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 17 March 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

51oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 51 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 45% of every possible ticket.

  • sum30th
  • odd79th
  • low50th
  • widest gap6th
  • neighbours72th
  • spread17th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 58 of each

768times
1252times
2160times
2759times
36

Prize breakdown · 2018-03-17

  • Lines in play≈ 643kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$204.2Kto 91k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 411%$22.3K
  • Match 326%$52.5K
  • Match 238%$77.4K
  • 6 other tiers25%$52K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.03 by chance

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72times
3760times

Every number was expected about that many times after 502 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 4 of 6 numbers (21, 27, 36, 37) with the draw of 9 September 2017 — its closest relative in 502 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 32% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (15 March 2018): 21 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

140

The numbers add up to 140 — the 29th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 36–37. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

37 had not appeared for 15 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 47% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$7,500,000
  • Match 58≈ 8.7 by chance$2,019
  • Match 4558≈ 491 by chance$40.00
  • Match 310,506≈ 9.6k by chance$5.00
  • Match 277,359≈ 77k by chance$1.00
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot3$1,000
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot48$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot349$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot1,167$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot1,292$5.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot0no winners
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈643k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 10,506 winners, 9% more than the 9.6k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$7,500,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot0$0.00
    Match 58$2,019
    Match 4 + Extra Shot3$1,000
    Match 4558$40.00
    Match 3 + Extra Shot48$125
    Match 310,506$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot349$25.00
    Match 277,359$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot1,167$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot1,292$5.00
    Totals0—