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Fantasy 5 · draw

Saturday, 21 January 2012

ResultFantasy 5

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 20
  3. 21
  4. 29
  5. 33

Jackpot$50,000

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 747 of 2,098 under them

← 2012-01-20All recent draws2012-01-22 →

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 feed2 20 21 29 3329 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 746 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 21 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 74% of every possible ticket.

  • sum58th
  • odd64th
  • low31th
  • widest gap84th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread70th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 96 of each

2107times
2098times
2189times
2995times
33

Prize breakdown · 2012-01-21

  • Lines in play≈ 159kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$20.4Kto 18k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.28

Where the money went

  • Match 433%$6.8K
  • Match 367%$13.6K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100kPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.28 by chance$50,000
  2. Match 4

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118times

Every number was expected about that many times after 746 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 (21, 29, 33) with the draw of 15 October 2011 — its closest relative in 746 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (20 January 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

105

The numbers add up to 105 — the 57th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 20–21. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

20 had not appeared for 27 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
63≈ 47 by chance
$108
  • Match 31,508≈ 1.5k by chance$9.00
  • Match 216,520≈ 17k by chance—
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈159k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 1,508 winners, 3% fewer than the 1.5k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 50$50,000
    Match 463$108
    Match 31,508$9.00
    Match 216,520$0.00