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Wild Money · draw

Thursday, 18 May 2017

ResultWild Money

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 3
  3. 18
  4. 20
  5. 21
  6. 5

Jackpot$24,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/38 + 1/35 · Nov 2016 – Apr 2025draw 79 of 2,314 under them

← 2017-05-16All recent draws2017-05-20 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:53 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed1 3 18 20 21 + 529 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Wild Money was a 5/38 + 1/35 · Nov 2016 – Apr 2025 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 78 draws before it — not against today’s pool.

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 May 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

50oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 50 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 44% of every possible ticket.

  • sum7th
  • odd67th
  • low67th
  • widest gap70th
  • neighbours74th
  • spread19th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each

120times
37times
1812times
207times
21

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7times
Stars · a separate 1-of-35 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 2 of each

52times

Every number was expected about that many times after 78 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 2 of 5 numbers (1, 20) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 13 May 2017 — its closest relative in 78 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 May 2017): 1 carried over. Chance says 53% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (3% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

63

The numbers add up to 63 — the 7th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 98. Side-by-side numbers: 20–21. 45% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

18 had not appeared for 10 draws. A number waits about 8 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 2.1× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 1% of the jackpot.

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

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