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Fantasy 5 · draw

Thursday, 23 February 2012

ResultFantasy 5

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 18
  3. 19
  4. 20
  5. 28

Jackpot$743,004

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 780 of 2,098 under them

← 2012-02-22All recent draws2012-02-24 →

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 feed1 18 19 20 2829 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 779 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 23 February 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

48oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 48 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 39% of every possible ticket.

  • sum28th
  • odd31th
  • low89th
  • widest gap79th
  • neighbours96th
  • spread48th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 100 of each

1104times
18117times
19100times
20102times
28

Prize breakdown · 2012-02-23

  • Lines in play≈ 799kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$850.4Kto 91k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 51 winnerchance said 1.4

Where the money went

  • Match 587%$743K
  • Match 44.3%$36.8K
  • Match 38.3%$70.6K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 51≈ 1.4 by chance$743,004
  2. Match 4

Play these numbers? Read them as your ticket →

116times

Every number was expected about that many times after 779 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 (18, 19, 28) with the draw of 7 January 2012 — its closest relative in 779 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (22 February 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

86

The numbers add up to 86 — the 28th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 18–19, 19–20. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

18 had not appeared for 24 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 →
259≈ 236 by chance
$142
  • Match 37,845≈ 7.8k by chance$9.00
  • Match 283,047≈ 83k by chance—
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈799k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 7,845 winners, 1% more than the 7.8k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 51$743,004
    Match 4259$142
    Match 37,845$9.00
    Match 283,047$0.00