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Classic Lotto 47 · draw

Saturday, 21 October 2017

ResultClassic Lotto 47

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 8
  3. 17
  4. 20
  5. 26
  6. 29

Jackpot$3,600,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/47 · since Apr 2010draw 785 of 1,877 under them

← 2017-10-18All recent draws2017-10-25 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:47 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed4 8 17 20 26 2929 Aug 2026, 09:31 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 21 October 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

33oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 33 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 12% of every possible ticket.

  • sum10th
  • odd20th
  • low77th
  • widest gap10th
  • neighbours24th
  • spread11th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 100 of each

486times
8107times
1797times
2090times
26

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95times
2986times

Every number was expected about that many times after 784 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 6 numbers (8, 26, 29) with the draw of 24 May 2017 — its closest relative in 784 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 October 2017): 20 carried over. Chance says 58% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

104

The numbers add up to 104 — the 10th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 144. No two numbers side by side. 51% of draws have at least one such pair.

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The longest wait in this draw

29 had not appeared for 40 draws. A number waits about 8 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 3.0× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 12% of the jackpot.

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

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