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Lotto Texas · draw

Saturday, 18 March 2017

ResultLotto Texas

Single source
  1. 12
  2. 15
  3. 16
  4. 23
  5. 38
  6. 43

Jackpot$26,250,000

The crowdHeld about as often as an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/54 · since Jan 2010draw 753 of 2,020 under them

← 2017-03-15All recent draws2017-03-22 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:54 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed12 15 16 23 38 4329 Aug 2026, 09:35 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

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

62oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 62 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 73% of every possible ticket.

  • sum31th
  • odd50th
  • low78th
  • widest gap38th
  • neighbours73th
  • spread17th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 84 of each

1284times
1587times
1686times
2369times
38

Prize breakdown · 2017-03-18

  • Lines in play≈ 273kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$291.5Kto 54k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 5lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.01

Where the money went

  • Match 424%$69.6K
  • Match 336%$104.2K
  • Match 2 with Extra21%$61.8K
  • 1 other tier19%$55.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.01 by chance

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93times
4381times

Every number was expected about that many times after 752 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.

Frequency Explorer →

Its nearest twin

Shares 4 of 6 numbers (12, 15, 16, 38) with the draw of 8 December 2012 — its closest relative in 752 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 39% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (15 March 2017): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

147

The numbers add up to 147 — the 31th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 165. Side-by-side numbers: 15–16. 46% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

23 had not appeared for 36 draws. A number waits about 9 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 59% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$26,250,000
  • Match 52 rows folded in13≈ 3.0 by chance$2,763
  • Match 42 rows folded in1,045≈ 179 by chance$51.00
  • Match 32 rows folded in22,519≈ 3.7k by chance$3.00
  • Match 2 with Extra30,901≈ 31k by chance$2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈273k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 22,519 winners, 515% more than the 3.7k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$26,250,000
    Match 5 with Extra2$12,763
    Match 511$2,763
    Match 4 with Extra163$151
    Match 4882$51.00
    Match 3 with Extra3,662$13.00
    Match 318,857$3.00
    Match 2 with Extra30,901$2.00
    Totals54,478—