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Montana Cash · draw

Saturday, 18 August 2018

ResultMontana Cash

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 12
  3. 23
  4. 27
  5. 43

Jackpot$390,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 · since May 2014draw 446 of 1,300 under them

← 2018-08-15All recent draws2018-08-22 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:49 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed3 12 23 27 4329 Aug 2026, 09:32 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

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

56oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 56 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 63% of every possible ticket.

  • sum40th
  • odd89th
  • low65th
  • widest gap58th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread89th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 49 of each

344times
1251times
2347times
2756times
43

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52times

Every number was expected about that many times after 445 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 (23, 27, 43) with the draw of 18 January 2017 — its closest relative in 445 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 95% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (15 August 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

108

The numbers add up to 108 — the 40th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 115. No two numbers side by side. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.

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The longest wait in this draw

43 had not appeared for 19 draws. A number waits about 9 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.

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

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