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Fantasy 5 · draw

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

ResultFantasy 5

Single source
  1. 12
  2. 14
  3. 26
  4. 28
  5. 30

Jackpot$119,000

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

Rules5/39 · Jan 2010 – Oct 2015draw 743 of 2,098 under them

← 2012-01-16All recent draws2012-01-18 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:43 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed12 14 26 28 3029 Aug 2026, 09:29 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Fantasy 5 was a 5/39 · Jan 2010 – Oct 2015 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 742 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 17 January 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

50oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 50 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 44% of every possible ticket.

  • sum66th
  • odd1th
  • low31th
  • widest gap43th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread11th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 95 of each

1289times
14106times
26107times
28111times
30

Prize breakdown · 2012-01-17

  • Lines in play≈ 216kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$28.5Kto 25k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.38

Where the money went

  • Match 434%$9.7K
  • Match 366%$18.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.38 by chance$119,000
  2. Match 4

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97times

Every number was expected about that many times after 742 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 3 of 5 numbers (14, 26, 28) with the draw of 6 December 2011 — its closest relative in 742 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 January 2012): 14, 30 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

110

The numbers add up to 110 — the 65th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. No two numbers side by side. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

28 had not appeared for 10 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 →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 1.8× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 1% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
70≈ 64 by chance
$138
  • Match 32,097≈ 2.1k by chance$9.00
  • Match 222,457≈ 22k by chance—
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈216k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 2,097 winners, 0% fewer than the 2.1k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 50$119,000
    Match 470$138
    Match 32,097$9.00
    Match 222,457$0.00