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Lotto · draw

Monday, 18 May 2020

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 11
  2. 13
  3. 22
  4. 28
  5. 36
  6. 43

Jackpot$12,250,000

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 843 of 1,616 under them

← 2020-05-16All recent draws2020-05-21 →

Where this result came from

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

  • Primarycommercial feed11 13 22 28 36 4329 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 842 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 18 May 2020 — 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 83% of every possible ticket.

  • sum43th
  • odd50th
  • low50th
  • widest gap6th
  • neighbours26th
  • spread23th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 97 of each

11113times
1392times
2289times
28105times
36

Prize breakdown · 2020-05-18

  • Lines in play≈ 522kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$176.1Kto 74k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 411%$19K
  • Match 322%$38.9K
  • Match 236%$62.7K
  • 6 other tiers32%$55.6K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.03 by chance

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107times
43104times

Every number was expected about that many times after 842 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 (11, 13, 28, 43) with the draw of 15 February 2020 — its closest relative in 842 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 48% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 May 2020): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

153

The numbers add up to 153 — the 43th 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

28 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 62% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$12,250,000
  • Match 52≈ 7.1 by chance$6,820
  • Match 4395≈ 398 by chance$48.00
  • Match 37,782≈ 7.8k by chance$5.00
  • Match 262,703≈ 63k by chance$1.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot0$170,488
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot2$1,200
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot59$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot430$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot1,396$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot1,489$5.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈522k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 7,782 winners, 0% more than the 7.8k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$12,250,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot0$170,488
    Match 52$6,820
    Match 4 + Extra Shot2$1,200
    Match 4395$48.00
    Match 3 + Extra Shot59$125
    Match 37,782$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot430$25.00
    Match 262,703$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot1,396$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot1,489$5.00
    Totals74,258—