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Fantasy 5 · draw

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

ResultFantasy 5

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 17
  3. 29
  4. 33
  5. 35

Jackpot$193,000

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 744 of 2,098 under them

← 2012-01-17All recent draws2012-01-19 →

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 feed8 17 29 33 3529 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 743 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 18 January 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

60oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 60 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 73% of every possible ticket.

  • sum82th
  • odd89th
  • low31th
  • widest gap43th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread48th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 95 of each

8101times
1791times
2993times
33117times
35

Prize breakdown · 2012-01-18

  • Lines in play≈ 252kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$33.9Kto 29k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.44

Where the money went

  • Match 434%$11.6K
  • Match 366%$22.3K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.44 by chance$193,000
  2. Match 4

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100times

Every number was expected about that many times after 743 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 5 numbers (17, 29, 33, 35) with the draw of 5 February 2010 — its closest relative in 743 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 20% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 January 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

122

The numbers add up to 122 — the 81th 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

35 had not appeared for 33 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 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 3% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
72≈ 74 by chance
$161
  • Match 32,475≈ 2.5k by chance$9.00
  • Match 226,214≈ 26k by chance—
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈252k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 2,475 winners, 1% more than the 2.5k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 50$193,000
    Match 472$161
    Match 32,475$9.00
    Match 226,214$0.00