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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$5,600,000
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 1,162 of 2,294 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:45 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 February 2021 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 59 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 65% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 145 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 1,161 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 4 of 6 numbers (9, 16, 28, 29) with the draw of 17 January 2018 — its closest relative in 1,161 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 71% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (13 February 2021): 29 carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 156 — the 60th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 147. Side-by-side numbers: 28–29. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →16 had not appeared for 23 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 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 39% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈176k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 8,738 winners, 166% more than the 3.3k 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 | $5,600,000 |
| Match 5 | 5 | $500 |
| Match 4 | 464 | $20.00 |
| Match 3 | 8,738 | $2.00 |
| Match 2 | 24,020 | $0.00 |
| Totals | 33,227 | — |