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Match 6 Lotto · draw

Thursday, 4 January 2018

ResultMatch 6 Lotto

Single source
  1. 7
  2. 18
  3. 20
  4. 40
  5. 42
  6. 46

Jackpot$560,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/49 · since Apr 2011draw 771 of 3,988 under them

← 2018-01-03All recent draws2018-01-05 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:52 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed7 18 20 40 42 4629 Aug 2026, 09:33 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 4 January 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

53oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 53 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 52% of every possible ticket.

  • sum75th
  • odd5th
  • low48th
  • widest gap81th
  • neighbours25th
  • spread62th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 94 of each

797times
1894times
2098times
4084times
42

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90times
4686times

Every number was expected about that many times after 770 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 (7, 20, 40) with the draw of 21 November 2017 — its closest relative in 770 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (3 January 2018): 20 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

173

The numbers add up to 173 — the 75th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. No two numbers side by side. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.

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The longest wait in this draw

42 had not appeared for 22 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 48% of the jackpot.

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

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