This isn't a system, and we're not fortune tellers. Nobody can predict a lottery draw, us included. What we do is look closely at real draw history and report what we find. The numbers are exactly as unpredictable after we have studied them as they were before.
What we do
We are an independent, unofficial site, and at heart a number generator: you pick a shape, it gives you numbers that fit.
We do not sell tickets, run draws or handle money. There is nothing to buy here. When you want to play, we link you to the official operator and you deal with them directly.
Around the generator sits the rest of it: results for the four biggest Australian games and the six overseas games Australians can play, the jackpots as they stand, a simulator that replays a set of numbers through every real draw on file, and a section on Australia's charity lotteries, where the prize is won every draw and the margin funds a cause. There is also a daily arcade of word games, logic puzzles and quick strategy games, a spinning wheel, and a fortune cookie that is a biscuit with a joke in it, not a forecast. A site about lottery night should be fun to visit in its own right.
Why the shapes
Every number generator we tried did the same thing. Press a button, get six random numbers. Press it again, get six more. There was never a reason to prefer one set to another.
So we looked at the draws themselves. Every draw has a shape: how many odd, how many even, how many from the low half and how many from the high. Some splits turn up more often than others, purely because of the maths, since there are more ways to build a 4 odd, 3 even draw than a 7 odd one. It is a real, visible property, and you can have a preference about it the same way you might have a favourite number. We could not find a generator that let you choose one, so we built ours.
Why 90 draws, and not thirty years. Because a lottery is random, and the longer you look the more that randomness drowns everything out. Stretch the window far enough and every shape converges on the same flat average, which is correct and also tells you nothing. Ninety draws is long enough to be a real record and short enough that the shapes are still visible. That is the whole reason for the number.
Each mix gets a plain name so you can talk about it: a Scorcher for one that has turned up in more than a fifth of the last 90 draws, Straight Down the Line between a fifteenth and a fifth, and Brass Monkeys for the rare end. The house rules are on Statistics Explained.
What we don't do
Predict draws, sell tickets, take payments, or claim any system beats a random one, because none does, ours included, and we have tested that rather than just asserting it. Every number carries exactly the same odds as every other, before and after we have looked at it. We check our own draw history against the statistics of genuine randomness before publishing it, because invented data gives itself away and we would rather find that than have you find it.
Our promise
Free to you, always. No account, no subscription, and nothing here will ever cost you a cent. When we do not know something we will say so. Set a budget, enjoy the ritual, and dream a little on draw night.
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lottery games tracked, four Australian and six international
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free games in the Arcade
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real draws behind every figure on this site, rolling forward after each draw