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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Lotto · draw
ResultLotto
Jackpot$3,000,000
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
Rules6/49 · since Jan 2010draw 307 of 2,628 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:56 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 December 2011 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 64 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 79% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 37 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 306 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 →Shares 3 of 6 numbers (18, 25, 41) with the draw of 27 August 2011 — its closest relative in 306 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (14 December 2011): 25 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 166 — the 68th 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.
Sum Distribution →31 had not appeared for 18 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 →A line like this is played about 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 45% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈720k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 713 winners, 2% more than the 697 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 0 | $3,000,000 |
| Match 5 | 9 | $1,000 |
| Match 4 | 713 | $30.00 |
| Match 3 | 12,701 | $3.00 |
| Totals | 13,423 | — |