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Texas Two Step · draw

Monday, 8 January 2018

ResultTexas Two Step

Single source
  1. 11
  2. 18
  3. 23
  4. 29
  5. 17

Jackpot$300,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules4/35 + 1/35 · Jan 2010 – Feb 2022draw 837 of 1,266 under them

← 2018-01-04All recent draws2018-01-11 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:55 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed11 18 23 29 + 1729 Aug 2026, 09:35 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Texas Two Step was a 4/35 + 1/35 · Jan 2010 – Feb 2022 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 836 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 8 January 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

59oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 59 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 61% of every possible ticket.

  • sum67th
  • odd81th
  • low48th
  • widest gap13th
  • neighbours34th
  • spread30th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 96 of each

1174times
1891times
2392times
2990times
Stars · a separate 1-of-35 machine

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Times drawn before — chance expected 24 of each

1730times

Every number was expected about that many times after 836 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 4 numbers (11, 18, 23) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 November 2016 — its closest relative in 836 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 86% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (4 January 2018): 18 carried over. Chance says 40% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (3% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

81

The numbers add up to 81 — the 66th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 72. No two numbers side by side. 31% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

11 had not appeared for 12 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 1.5× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 0% of the jackpot.

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

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