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Oz Lotto · draw

Tuesday, 21 January 2020

ResultOz Lotto

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 12
  3. 17
  4. 22
  5. 37
  6. 40
  7. 43
  8. 27
  9. 36

JackpotA$2,000,000

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

Rules7/45 + 2/45 · Jan 2009 – May 2022draw 577 of 697 under them

← 2020-01-14All recent draws2020-01-28 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:36 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed5 12 17 22 37 40 43 + 27 3629 Aug 2026, 09:26 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Oz Lotto was a 7/45 + 2/45 · Jan 2009 – May 2022 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 576 draws before it — not against today’s pool.

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This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 21 January 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

63oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 63 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 79% of every possible ticket.

  • sum68th
  • odd62th
  • low62th
  • widest gap70th
  • neighbours17th
  • spread67th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 90 of each

593times
1285times
1785times
22102times
37100times
4093times
4389times

Every number was expected about that many times after 576 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 4 of 7 numbers (5, 12, 37, 40) with the draw of 8 October 2019 — its closest relative in 576 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 January 2020): 40 carried over. Chance says 72% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

176

The numbers add up to 176 — the 67th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 161. No two numbers side by side. 66% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

43 had not appeared for 22 draws. A number waits about 6 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 81% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 2020-01-21

  • Lines in play≈ 8.4Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid outA$3.2Mto 144k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 58lines took a prize
  • Match 70 winnerschance said 0.18

Where the money went

  • Match 65.8%A$188.7K
  • Match 439%A$1.3M
  • match_3_b45%A$1.5M
  • 3 other tiers9.3%A$302.4K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 70≈ 0.18 by chanceA$2,000,000
  2. match_6_b6≈ 2.6 by chanceA$15,276
  3. Match 643≈ 46 by chanceA$4,389
  4. match_5_b359≈ 282 by chanceA$270
  5. Match 52,070≈ 2.4k by chanceA$55.00
  6. Match 449,009≈ 54k by chanceA$26.00
  7. match_3_b92,022≈ 96k by chanceA$16.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈8.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 5 — 2,070 winners, 15% fewer than the 2.4k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

Show the published table
MatchWinnersPrize each
match_3_b92,022A$16.00
Match 449,009A$26.00
Match 52,070A$55.00
match_5_b359A$270
Match 643A$4,389
match_6_b6A$15,276
Match 70A$2,000,000