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Lotto · draw

Saturday, 12 May 2012

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 16
  3. 20
  4. 22
  5. 24
  6. 28

Jackpot$5,800,000

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

Rules6/42 · since Apr 2010draw 220 of 2,099 under them

← 2012-05-09All recent draws2012-05-16 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:40 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed1 16 20 22 24 2829 Aug 2026, 09:28 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 12 May 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

54oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 54 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 53% of every possible ticket.

  • sum26th
  • odd5th
  • low50th
  • widest gap68th
  • neighbours22th
  • spread27th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 31 of each

138times
1632times
2039times
2232times
24

Prize breakdown · 2012-05-12

  • Lines in play≈ 408kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$73.4Kto 12k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 35lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.08

Where the money went

  • Match 511%$8.4K
  • Match 443%$31.6K
  • Match 345%$33.4K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.08 by chance$5,800,000
  2. Match 5

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34times
2829times

Every number was expected about that many times after 219 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 (16, 20, 22, 28) with the draw of 13 April 2011 — its closest relative in 219 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 33% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (9 May 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 63% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

111

The numbers add up to 111 — the 26th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 129. No two numbers side by side. 56% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

28 had not appeared for 19 draws. A number waits about 7 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 2.1× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 8% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
10≈ 17 by chance
$843
  • Match 4702≈ 736 by chance$45.00
  • Match 311,118≈ 11k by chance$3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈408k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 702 winners, 5% fewer than the 736 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$5,800,000
    Match 510$843
    Match 4702$45.00
    Match 311,118$3.00