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Lucky for Life · draw

Thursday, 18 January 2018

ResultLucky for Life

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 15
  3. 21
  4. 28
  5. 36
  6. 14

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/48 + 1/18 · since Jan 2015draw 311 of 2,354 under them

← 2018-01-15All recent draws2018-01-22 →

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 feed5 15 21 28 36 + 1429 Aug 2026, 09:31 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 January 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

60oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 60 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 72% of every possible ticket.

  • sum28th
  • odd66th
  • low66th
  • widest gap13th
  • neighbours32th
  • spread39th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 32 of each

527times
1538times
2138times
2829times
36

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38times
Stars · a separate 1-of-18 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 17 of each

1423times

Every number was expected about that many times after 310 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 (5, 21, 28) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 7 January 2016 — its closest relative in 310 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 81% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (15 January 2018): 15 carried over. Chance says 44% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (6% expected).

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Sum and shape

105

The numbers add up to 105 — the 28th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. No two numbers side by side. 37% of draws have at least one such pair.

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The longest wait in this draw

5 had not appeared for 28 draws. A number waits about 10 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.

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How many people held it

A line like this is played about 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% of the jackpot.

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

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