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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.
Hoosier Lotto · draw
ResultHoosier Lotto
Jackpot$3,800,000
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
Rules6/48 · since Jan 2010draw 859 of 2,293 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:45 UTC.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 24 March 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 64% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 107 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 858 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 (4, 12, 42) with the draw of 23 September 2017 — its closest relative in 858 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (21 March 2018): 4 carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 126 — the 26th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 147. Side-by-side numbers: 11–12. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →42 had not appeared for 12 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 36% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈243k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 12,895 winners, 183% more than the 4.6k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 0 | $3,800,000 |
| Match 5 | 2 | $500 |
| Match 4 | 676 | $20.00 |
| Match 3 | 12,895 | $2.00 |
| Match 2 | 33,273 | $0.00 |
| Totals | 46,846 | — |