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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Lotto · draw
ResultLotto
Jackpot$14,300,000
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
Rules6/50 + 1/25 · since Apr 2025draw 49 of 688 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:44 UTC.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 August 2025 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 25 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 5% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 6 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 48 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 →Shares 3 of 6 numbers (1, 6, 17) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 3 May 2025 — its closest relative in 48 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 57% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (16 August 2025): nothing carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 68 — the 0th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 153. No two numbers side by side. 49% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →13 had not appeared for 15 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 →A line like this is played about 2.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 23% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈338k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 6,407 winners, 14% more than the 5.6k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 0 | $14,150,000 |
| Match 5 + Extra Shot | 0 | $27,763 |
| Match 5 | 9 | $1,111 |
| Match 4 + Extra Shot | 2 | $850 |
| Match 4 | 389 | $34.00 |
| Match 3 + Extra Shot | 60 | $125 |
| Match 3 | 6,407 | $5.00 |
| Match 2 + Extra Shot | 390 | $25.00 |
| Match 2 | 41,534 | $2.00 |
| Match 1 + Extra Shot | 1,101 | $10.00 |
| Match 0 + Extra Shot | 1,233 | $5.00 |
| Totals | 51,125 | — |