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Lucky for Life · draw

Monday, 9 May 2016

ResultLucky for Life

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 9
  4. 26
  5. 28
  6. 17

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/48 + 1/18 · since Jan 2015draw 134 of 2,354 under them

← 2016-05-05All recent draws2016-05-12 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:46 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed2 3 9 26 28 + 1729 Aug 2026, 09:31 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 9 May 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

52oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 52 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 49% of every possible ticket.

  • sum3th
  • odd34th
  • low66th
  • widest gap58th
  • neighbours79th
  • spread22th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 14 of each

215times
313times
98times
2614times
28

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12times
Stars · a separate 1-of-18 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each

1711times

Every number was expected about that many times after 133 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.

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Its nearest twin

Shares 3 of 5 numbers (2, 26, 28) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 September 2015 — its closest relative in 133 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 51% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (5 May 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 44% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (6% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

68

The numbers add up to 68 — the 3th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. Side-by-side numbers: 2–3. 37% of draws have at least one such pair.

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The longest wait in this draw

9 had not appeared for 41 draws. A number waits about 10 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 3.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.

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

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